Dedication is what you need,
especially when life puts things into perspective for you.
Since I started this long journey
by writing the Rawn Chronicles I never realised that events would move quicker
than my ability to churn out a few novels. At the time, I used my feelings to
dictate the dedication section on my books to fit with my thoughts, and so this
moved me to add notations fitting the current
times, even though I had written the books years before publishing.
This is not an excuse to delete
the original dedications; far from it, they will remain. This is just an announcement
to add, change, reconstruct and update the current award already bestowed on
others.
And it is an award. Most, of not
all, writers would agree with me. The dedicatees will have their names in print
forever.
There are reasons, some will
remain personal and others will be known to a select few, why I do this. I hope
the original names will not be offended that I give others an honoured place
next to them.