Titanic 2012: Curse of RMS Titanic

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

However, first an acknowledgement: Thanks to the tireless efforts of Diane Harrison this novel sees e-Publication months in advance; this due to Diane’s excellent genius in editing. This goes equally true for the editorial help of Robert Farley Jr., whose contribution and help with technical aspects of the futuristic scenes in particular was incredible—again genius. To Diane and Robert, my undying thanks for a job well done… beyond my wildest expectations! Along with others, Diane also edited my Children of Salem. Thanks also go to Sandy Burdsall for an early reading and helpful final edits, and to Joe Franks for excellent ‘gun’ support, helping me to get the firearms right. Thanks to a former editor and friend, Jack Caravela for brainstorming with me on this project back about fifteen years ago. Thanks to Charles Pellegrino for his excellent Her Name Titanic, and of course to Dr. Robert D. Ballard for finding Titanic and writing his excellent account The Discovery of the Titanic. My copy is as well-worn as a book can be. I couldn’t have written this book without this invaluable help and would surely have repeated the errors of Clive Cussler’s Raise the Titanic (written prior to Ballard’s discovery) if Bob Ballard had not found Titanic two and a half miles below the North Atlantic. Sadly, however, I won’t be making the 2012 sold out re-creation voyage of the Titanic’s course in 2012, a hundred years since her sinking.

Finally, allow me time to thank my wife Miranda, whose Absolution, a novel of suspense, is now an e-book, chapters one through three attached at the end of this book for a sneak peek of Miranda Phillips Walker’s talent and inherent understanding and respect for the hours, days, weeks, and months required of writing. Miranda and our children together are a wonderment, as the King of Siam was fond of saying. Thanks also to my son, Stephen Walker for untold hours of ‘behind the scenes’ work from fantastic graphic cover art to negotiating the intricacies of the internet world and digital platform publishing. Thanks finally to Joe Konrath as well for dragging me kicking and screaming into the Kindle Indie-author side of publishing, and for his undying friendship along with wife Maria Konrath for her unflagging faith in me. Finally, thanks to all those thousands of ebook readers who have embraced my Kindle original titles and reprinted works. You’ve made an aging writer a happily aging man. Now without further adieu, I give you Titanic 2012.