Thanks once again to the marketing and publicity team of Alex Lencicki, Ellen Wright, Laura Fitzgerald, and Paola Crespo, design wizards Lauren Panepinto and Lisa Marie Pompilio, editor Jenni Hill and publicist Nazia Khatun in the UK, production overseer Andy Ball, ever-observant copyeditor Kelley Frodel, mapmaker Tim Paul, and everyone else who had a hand in putting my book on physical and virtual shelves.
I shared an early, messy draft of Jade War with my agent, Jim McCarthy, before I allowed any other soul to set eyes on it, and his excellent suggestions and continued optimism convinced me that not all hope was lost. (He’s good at doing that.)
Thank you to beta readers Curtis Chen, Simone Cooper, Vanessa MacLellan, Carolyn O’Doherty, and Sonja Thomas for the feedback and brainstorming sessions. Tina Connolly spent a car ride with me to Seattle helping to solve a section of the story that resulted in the best fight scene in the book.
My husband, Nathan, has acted as reader, proofreader, sounding board, and regular emotional support provider. I couldn’t do it without him. Our two children are a continual reminder that there’s much more to life than how well the writing is going on any one given day.
The marvelous reader enthusiasm to the Green Bone Saga has motivated me through every day of working on this novel. I’m grateful for every appreciative and encouraging email, tweet, review, and in-person interaction I’ve received from new clan loyalists, and I hope you all keep coming back because there’s more where this came from.
BY FONDA LEE
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2019 by Fonda Lee
Author photograph by Elena Rose Photography
Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio
Cover art © Alamy and Shutterstock
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Maps copyright © 2019 by Tim Paul
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lee, Fonda, author.
Title: Jade war / Fonda Lee.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Orbit, 2019. | Series: The Green Bone saga ; book 2
Identifiers: LCCN 2019000760 | ISBN 9780316440929 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316440905 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780316440936 (ebook)
Subjects: | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3612.E34285 J38 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019000760
ISBNs: 978-0-316-44092-9 (hardcover), 978-0-316-44093-6 (ebook)
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