The edge of everywhen, p.20
The Edge of Everywhen, page 20
To the book launch crew around the world: Thank you for helping me achieve so much! I couldn’t have done it without your mad skills on the interwebs.
To Talitha Seibel: WOW! Your encouragement and constructive feedback were invaluable for making this book all it could be.
To my beta readers: Madison Agans, Kathleen Ball, Bernadette Golitz, Prisca Hill, Cheryl Lewis, Faith Mire, Laurel Phillips, Selah Seibel, Talitha Seibel, Sarah Stewart, Noël Roberds, and Tammy West. Thank you for giving me the precious resource of your time.
To The Dragonfly (Collinwood, TN) and the Collinwood Public Library: Thanks for letting me use your Wi-Fi every time my DSL went down. It was down a lot.
To LeAnne Riggsbee: Thank you for reading all the things, and for believing I can walk on water backward in high heels.
To Joy Willow and the Shoals Writers Guild: Thank you for your wholehearted encouragement and support. I love the writing community we’re all building together.
To Lucy Fowler and the Restoring the Foundations prayer team: Thank you all for listening to the Holy Spirit as you prayed for me and for this project. You touched my soul.
To my parents, Robert and Susan Fortner: Thank you for buying me my first empty notebook and my first typewriter. I finally put them to good use.
To Nanci Lamborn: You’re the strongest, bestest, most prayingest twin sister I could ever have hoped for. I love you, and I think it’s time for another cruise.
To Marlena, Josh, Sarah, and Jonathan: Thank you for growing up to be incredible adults. I have no doubt you will all keep me from getting weird.
To my husband Chad: I love you more every day. Thank you for walking through it all with me, and for eating frozen dinners every November since 2011 so I could do NaNoWriMo. Ireland awaits.
And finally, to Jesus: I can’t thank You enough. It’s all for You, and I will spend my life knowing You and making You known.
About the Author
A.S. Mackey’s first foray into writing took place when she was an elementary school kid in Smyrna, Georgia. Her debut “book” was a Steno pad full of poems, given to her parents as a Christmas gift when she was eight. As a preteen, her journals overflowed with lofty, angst-filled poetry, and she wrote her first sci-fi novel at age fifteen. (It was horrid.) Her nickname in high school was Webster, but she did not, in fact, read the dictionary for fun.
Her love for creative writing was solidified with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Georgia in 1991. During her senior year at UGA, she was a reporter and copy editor for the Oglethorpe Echo newspaper in Lexington, Georgia. From 1992 to 1993 she was a regular humor column contributor in the quarterly independent musicians’ magazine Visions of Gray, writing under the pen name of Uncle Earl. Allison is also a musician, and she wrote and recorded an original eleven-song CD in 2003 titled You’ve Waited Long Enough.
Mrs. Mackey has written multiple children’s stories on a contract basis with Tiny Readers Publishing in Houston in 2014. She has also created web content for scores of websites around the world through Upwork. She loves to cook, and a recipe she helped develop with her identical twin sister is included in the 2017 edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac Readers’ Best Recipes and the Stories Behind Them.
She enjoys speaking to students of all ages and has taught creative writing workshops in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
Honored to be represented by agent Elizabeth Bennett at the Transatlantic Literary Agency, Mackey is also the secretary of the Shoals Writers Guild in Florence, Alabama, where she currently lives. She and her husband, Chad, are church planters and worship leaders, and she is the mother of three adult children and a son-in-law.
A.S. Mackey, The Edge of Everywhen
