To all the editors who bought my stories, in roughly chronological order, and I apologize for missing some: Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, George Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, Cathleen Jordan, Kathy Ptacek, Damon Knight, Kit Kerr, Jo Clayton, Dean Wesley Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, David G. Hartwell, Mike Resnick, Cynthia Sternau, Barbara Hambly, Pete Crowther, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Roger Zelazny, Norm Partridge, Josepha Sherman, Lawrence Schimel, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Laura Anne Gilman, Larry Segriff, Gordon Van Gelder, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, John Helfers, Kerrie Hughes, Denise Little, Whitley Strieber, Constance Ash, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Greg Ketter, Eileen Gunn, Margaret Weis, Alan Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, Esther Friesner, Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas Roche, Al Sarrantonio, Brittiany A. Koren, Jennifer Roberson, Charles G. Waugh, Claude Lalumière & Marty Halpern, Brian A. Hopkins, Brian M. Thomsen, Jay Lake & Deborah Layne, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, Kim Mohan, Russell Davis, Steve Berman, Loren Coleman, Eric Marin, Rob St. Martin & Julie Czerneda, Daniel Hoyt, Lois Metzger, Melinda Metz, John O'Neill, Bill Fawcett, Patrick Swenson, Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt, Steve Savile, Jeanne Cavelos, Eric Flint, John Joseph Adams, Neil Clark, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Léa Silhol, Kevin J. Anderson, Jeremy Lassen, Paula Guran, and Jonathan & Michele at DAILY SF.
Most especially for people who bought multiple stories from me across the years: Charles L. Grant, Patrick Lucien Price, John Betancourt, Marty Greenberg, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Bruce Coville, Shawna McCarthy, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, and Sharyn November.
Thank you all for helping me live a writer's life.
Publication History
“Key Signatures” first appeared in F&SF (April 1996)
“The Weight of Wishes” first appeared in Children of Magic, DAW (June 2006)
“How I Came to Marry a Herpetologist” first appeared in Twice Upon a Time, DAW (April 1999)
“Strikes of the Heart” first appeared in Maiden Matron Crone, DAW (2005)
“Switched” first appeared in Rotten Relations, DAW (December 2004)
“Sourheart” first appeared in The Ultimate Witch, Byron Preiss Visual Publications (October 1993)
“Inner Child” first appeared in Otherwhere, Ace Books (September 1996)
“Home for Christmas” first appeared in F&SF (January 1995)
“Anger Management” appears here for the first time
“Trees Perpetual of Sleep” first appeared in Enchanted Forests, DAW (December 1995)
“Hostile Takeover” first appeared in Wizards, Inc., DAW (November 2007)
“Here We Come A-Wandering” first appeared in F&SF (January 1996)
“The Wisdom of Disaster” first appeared in Amazing Stories (January 2005)
“A Fault Against the Dead” first appeared in Realms of Fantasy (June 2003)
“The Trouble With the Truth” first appeared in The Dimension Next Door, DAW (July 2008)
“Gone to Heaven Shouting” first appeared in F&SF (January 1998)