title: Morning Coffee Devotions (Volume 1)
author: Brandon Sawyer
description: Hello my name is Brandon Sawyer. I am a freelance graphic designer, poet and author. I grew up in Freeport, New York and graduated from Freeport high school in 2004. I did one semester at Nassau community college and move to Snellville Georgia where i now currently live. I don't have any degrees or ordination. but what i do have I thirty years of life experience that god has given me to share with you.
zlib_text: **Dust of Dreams**
  
  
  BOOK NINE OF THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN
  
  
  Steven Erikson
  
  
    
  
  
  Ten
  
  
  years ago I received an endorsement from a most  
  unexpected source,
  
  
  from a writer I respected and admired.  
  The friendship born in that
  
  
  moment is one I deeply treasure.  
  With love and gratitude, I
  
  
  dedicate this novel  
  to Stephen R. Donaldson.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  #
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  
  Commenting on
  
  
  the first half of a very long, two-volume novel is not an easy task.
  
  
  My thanks (and sympathy) go to William Hunter, Hazel Kendall, Bowen
  
  
  Thomas-Lundin, and Aidan-Paul Canavan for their percipience and
  
  
  forbearance. Appreciation also goes to the staff at The Black Stilt
  
  
  and Café Macchiato in Victoria who were very understanding in
  
  
  my surrender to caffeine-free coffee. Thanks too to Clare Thomas; and
  
  
  special gratitude goes to my students in the writing workshop I have
  
  
  been conducting for the past few months. Shannon, Margaret,
  
  
  Shigenori, Brenda, Jade, and Lenore: you have helped remin