Something of a Kind

Something Of A Kind ©2012 by Miranda Wheeler.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A current high school student, 16-year-old author Miranda Wheeler lives with her loving family in her hometown of Torrington, Connecticut. An avid reader, she’s been whipping through books and producing novel-length projects (though

none published prior to Something Of A Kind) from the early age of eleven. Having previously released short stories, some published in magazines such as TeenInk and others via “indie” mediums, she has many plans of continuing to write, as well as pursuing other passions and an eventual teaching career. While the official cover is a work in progress and the title won’t be released until the promotional media is obtained, several other projects are in the works: a YA steampunk novella and a YA sci-fi-romance novel, in addition to unofficial talks of a Something Of A Kind sequel.

For more information and updates on her latest work, visit the author’s website at: http://mirandawheeler.blogspot.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Firstly, I thank my mother. A talented author, no one else was more supportive, amusing, reflective, helpful, and wonderfully amazing than she. This book is dedicated to her, because without her, I would have never written it. Had she not insisted so ardently, occasionally via parodied poems or impromptu lyrics from songs that both do and don’t exist, I would never have braved the first chapter. In the same way she magically manages to shove me through the doors of school each year, or make me laugh at my most horrific failures, she got me through this novel – even when the silly expression on the other side of the laptop hindered many-a-chapter. Thank you for pulling me through this odd dream of mine. It’s was never something I even dared to fathom creating at a lowly sixteen.

Secondly, my entire family deserves credit, specifically my father and my younger brothers, Justin and Bobby. No one else endured such a brunt of infuriatingly boring documentaries or instigative debates over things my inner dreamer intends always to believe in. Additionally, the grandmothers who offered encouragement and my grandfather, another author, for his bizarre and entertaining Adirondack stories, as well as the aunts, uncles, cousins, and secondcousins who told me to “go for it” – they all absolutely deserve my utmost appreciation.

My friends, who though teasing, never (vocally) doubted the feat could be accomplished, were beyond patient with my MIA behavior during this process. My church family, who consistently expressed belief that I shared my parents’ talents, always has my love. To the myriad of teacherswho said they knew I’d be an author – thank you. While blushing, I secretly adored every suggestion of hope, swallowing whispers of happiness every time I was encouraged.

Final but foremost, I seek to glorify my heavenly Father. May He forgive me for capturing the absurd moments of the story people who so boldly cried out to me. I’m for You, always.

Something Of A Kind ©2012 by Miranda Wheeler.