It’s over. I wrote a yokits trilogy. I’m not quite sure what emotion I’ll settle on in the end. For now, I’m happy. I’m sad. I’m proud. I want to thank Seth, my agent, Will, Rebecca and everyone at Gernert. I owe all of you drinks for the rest of your lives. Jon Cassir at CAA. My editors—I’ve had a few. Mark, thank you for giving this series a home. Mike, who is now being chased by zombies all day—killing a hundred million people with you was a lot of fun. Mouahaha! Sarah! You’re amazing. I’m still in awe at your work on this. You get it. You truly get it. I hope we get to do this again. Everyone else at Del Rey, Alex, David, Emily, Erika, Keith, Scott, Tricia, I love you all. You’re family to me. To the entire PRH audio team, you’ve made something truly special. Let’s not forget my three UK editors—like I said, I’ve had a few. Alex, Emad, Jillian, thank you for putting that big face in the UK sky. Thanks to my nineteen other editors around the world. Thank you, Dave Kaiser, for helping with Bob’s Russian. He says: “Bolshoe spasibo!” To everyone who’s worked on that series in one way or another, thank you.
To Barbara, former president of Bot Bot publishing, can you believe how far we’ve come? This is the thing I started writing on my iPhone while you were reading. I wouldn’t be here without you. To my son, Theodore. You’re the inspiration for all this, so keep asking questions, lots of questions. And don’t worry, we’ll get you more Themis toys.
To the Themisphiles—yep, that’s what I call you, most incredible readers in the universe—one huge thank-you. Mucho, domo merci beaucoup! Eyesunt yesk! Some of you have already asked if there’ll be more Themis Files. We’ll see. I have a few things I’m working on, but I’m not closing the door on that universe. Mr. Burns has more stories to tell, I’m sure. I hope he saves me some Kung Pao chicken.
So … now what?