ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’d like to thank Melody Chamlee for being my first reader. I’d like to thank Stefan Dziemianowicz for his generosity and his time, Charles Tan for bringing material from the Philippines to my attention, as well as Michael Kelly, and Laura Miller for recommendations. And thanks to Tamsyn Muir, who provided me with most unexpected yet welcome help in the last few days of putting this volume together.
I’d also like to thank and acknowledge the following magazines and catalogs for invaluable information and descriptions of material I was unable to obtain: Locus, Publishers Weekly, British Fantasy Society Journal, and S.F. Commentary. Thanks to the editors who made sure I saw their magazines during the year, the webzine editors who provided printouts, and the book publishers who provided review copies in a timely manner. Also, the writers who sent me printouts of their stories when I was unable to acquire the magazine or book in which they appeared.
Thanks to Merrilee Heifetz and Sarah Nagel at Writers House.
And a very special thank you to Jeremy Lassen, Jason Williams, Ross Lockhart, and Tomra Palmer.