Acknowledgements
To my wife Ruth, who really didn’t know what she was getting into when she married me. I mean, who’d want to marry a writer?
And with great thanks to Eric Flint, for letting me (and so many others) play in his sandbox.
In Memoriam
Ruth Ann Carrico – February 6, 1952 – January 25, 2018
Eric Flint – February 6, 1947 – July 17, 2022
When they were alive, it was a source of some humor that both Ruth, my wife, and Eric, my mentor and publisher, shared a birthday. Now that they’ve both passed on, it’s a source of some nostalgia and more than a little sadness…especially on that day.