Masters of the Veil (36 page)
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Authors: Daniel A. Cohen
Tags: #Fairy Tales & Folklore, #Action & Adventure, #Juvenile Fiction, #Fantasy & Magic, #Fiction, #Fantasy, #General
Including magic.
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Acknowledgments
First off, I’d like to thank my fantastic editor, Kate Kaynak, who has a tremendous talent for showing others the magic in themselves. Thanks to my family and friends and God.
Thanks to Rich Storrs, Vicki Ciaffone, Alex Bennett, Danielle Ellison, and everyone over at Spencer Hill Press: my writing family that redefines what it means to be a publishing company. Thanks to Katie Radzik for such great preliminary editing and copy editing. Special thanks to (the amazing) Stephanie Radzik, Jenn Sardina, Brian Keegan, Matthew Elmes, Josh Darfler, Justin Curcio, and everyone else who helped support and shape this novel. And thank you Shaul Hendel, M.S, L.Ac, who managed to save me from myself.
This is not like my first book, written mostly for the fun and excitement of it. This novel kept me alive, kept me going. It was, at the same time, my escape and my path back to life. I took my passion and wrapped myself so tightly around it that I forgot where I ended and the story began. This is not just the story of a football player turned sorcerer. This is the place where I rediscovered who I was.
We all go through hardship, and we all have our ways of coping. In these pages, you will find the best and worst of me, which I’m sure many of you can relate to. You can see my strengths and insecurities; my faith and failures; my relationships and my demons. This novel is the cross product of so much pain and hope, and eventually, hope won.
I sincerely hope you enjoyed this book.
Dan
September, 2011
About the Author
Daniel A. Cohen was just your average business student. Microeconomics, finance, marketing… you name it, he had to do a PowerPoint presentation on it. One dark and stormy night, he was bitten by the radioactive realization that memorizing business jargon could possibly be the most boring activity known to man.
After gaining eagle-eye vision, abs that could grate cheese, and a talent for imagining things (including his cheese-grating abs), he wrote his first novel and began his epic battle against the formidable business jargon. He continues to fight the good fight by playing saxophone and writing YA fantasy, forever hoping his Veil Trilogy will help inspire others to join his cause.
Find out more at
www.spencerhillpress.com
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Copyright © 2012 by Daniel A. Cohen
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Spencer Hill Press
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
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First Edition: March 2012.
Cohen, Daniel A. 1989
Masters of the Veil: a novel / by Daniel A. Cohen – 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary:
High school senior Sam Lock accidentally manifests magic for the first time during the big football game. Not only does this destroy his chances for a football scholarship, now sorcerers—both good and evil—are searching for him.
The author acknowledges the copyrighted or trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this fiction:
La-Z-Boy, Plexiglas, PowerPoint
Cover design by K. Kaynak
ISBN 978-1-937053-02-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-937053-03-1 (e-book)
Printed in the United States of America
