Wild Fyre (31 page)
Authors: Ike Hamill
“No technology?”
“I’m sure they use spreadsheets to keep track of stuff. But no, not for me. I just want to get my hands dirty for once.”
I smiled. “I don’t know anyone down that way, but I could probably dig up a lead.”
“Give me another week or two to heal up and then I’m ready,” Maco said. He leaned back on the couch and put his feet up.
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Ike Hamill
Topsham, Maine
9/17/2013
About
Wild Fyre
I hope you enjoyed reading this book as much as I liked writing it. It drew upon some of the technology that I was deeply immersed in at one point in my previous career. I hope the details weren’t too dry. The people in this book are all drawn from people I have known. I changed most of the names. I decided to write this book out of sequence, so I was careful to include a date whenever we jumped forward or back. Sometimes stories want to jump back and forth—at least that’s my experience.
I wrote the first draft of this book in 2013. Because it mentions specific technologies, I was afraid it wouldn’t age well. When I went back to it, I saw that it was more about personality and morality, so I decided to create a second draft.
Thanks for reading,
Ike
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