This probably sounds all tawdry and cheap.  Well, you know how I like it…

Anyway, this is one paragraph from the acknowledgements in Darkness Comes to Kingswell.  I’m tossing this section out there since I want to do some level of justice to the subject without being… um… well, tawdry and cheap.  That works in the sex life of many but probably isn’t appropriate in this context.  Despite this being a work in progress, I’m tossing it out there for whatever recommendations and criticism you can throw at it.

Thank you to Stephen King for so many opportunities to enjoy escapes that carried me to worlds magical, horrifying, entertaining, and uplifting. You will never truly comprehend the flights of fancy you empowered in me. In the same breath you tapped to speak of wonders beyond mortals and the splendor of life found in the mundane, I discovered the wind needed to power my own sails through a landscape whose purview stretched beyond and below and above all that humans know. To pay homage to the decades of thought and diversion you have supplied others, not the least of which has been me, and in the same spirit of that mystical Maine town of Castle Rock, I offer in honor of you the East Texas town of Kingswell, so named from my utmost respect and admiration for you, and also in blatant thanks for empowering my own imagination whilst simultaneously whisking me away to lands where my experiences dwelled outside the reach of all human encounters. May this small fictional community nestled against the Texas-Louisiana border give life to a depth of imaginings even your mind can appreciate. It is in that place I intend… Well, let’s just see what the future brings, shall we? I think the steadfast citizens of Castle Rock will find solace in knowing their ontological troubles seem but a part of something that reaches to the opposite end of the country, and if the range of happenings is any indication, may they even find themselves grateful from time to time knowing some occurrences are so far away.

Before you ask, there’s a lot more in the acknowledgements than this one paragraph.  It’s just that this is the one I’m most concerned with at present.

[Update] By the way, and for those interested, I’m on page 198.  I’m not sure what the conversion ratio is for font size and spacing to actual book length, but that’s my current progress.