ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As ever, I’d like to thank a number of people for the help they gave me with this book: Tim Powers and Lew Shiner especially, for their friendship and for the right stuff at the right time, and John Accursi, who could make a fortune as a story editor. I’d also like to thank Chris Arena, who not only cheerfully put up with a thousand questions over the phone and over lunch, but who put up with them again when I called back for details. And thanks to Mark Ziesing, the king of Shingletown and the guru of catalogue sales….
For sheer inspiration, energy, joy, and faith in the future, I’m grateful to the kids of the Orange County Children’s Theatre, who have added a whole lot of color to my life. “Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” John Ruskin wrote that, and he was right.