In the end, I must always credit Aaron Phillips. Without him, there would be no Red Rising, no Golden Son. A true friend since we met studying abroad in Germany, he has watched me start fifteen books, finish six, and face rejection from agents more than a hundred times over seven years. When things grew dark, he lifted me up and urged me to continue on my quest. It’s been a blessing seeing him grow, marry, and become as deep and true a man as Samwise Gamgee ever was.

It’s strange thinking I wrote Red Rising four years ago above my parents’ garage in Seattle. Stranger thinking I suspected only my friends would ever read it. So thank you, readers. Thank you for going on this journey with me. Thank you for letting me live a life as a dreammaker, the only thing I’ve wanted to do since my father read The Hobbit to me as a boy and I realized that the magic of man is in words, in tales, in legends lost and in those still yet to come.

BY PIERCE BROWN

Red Rising

Golden Son

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PIERCE BROWN is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising and Golden Son. While trying to make it as a writer, Brown worked as a manager of social media at a start-up tech company, toiled as a peon on the Disney lot at ABC Studios, did his time as an NBC page, and gave sleep deprivation a new meaning during his stint as an aide on a U.S. Senate campaign. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on his next novel.

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