Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the many people who helped bring this book to fruition. Their input has been invaluable. For reading the entire book and offering comments, my thanks to Daniel Berdine, Kate Dolan, and Mary Lou Mendum. My thanks to every one of my Patreon subscribers for their much-appreciated support and encouragement; for their comments on specific scenes, to Dan Balkwill, Duane Ebersole, Duc Le, Ekaterine Andersen, Elaine, Elizabeth Krentz-Wee, Eric Schechter, Gregory Mendell, Jim Scovill, Joan Hardy, John Hart, John Howard Brown, Lee Thompson, Lizzie Newell, Paul Franco, phaeax, Sandra Lange, Shane Rooney, and Vivian Behrman. To David Mattingly, for his excellent artwork for the cover. To all the excellent folks at Baen Books, including my publisher and editor, Toni Weiskopf, and also Ben Davidoff, Carol Russo, Corinda Carfora, David Afsharirad, Elizabeth O’Brien, Geoff Kidd, Jason Cordova, Jenny Cunningham, Jim Minz, Joy Freeman, Marla Ainspan, Sean CW Korsgaard, and everyone else there who helped make this book possible. I would also like to thank Tony Daniel and Christopher Ruocchio for their work on the book, and John Scalzi for his much-appreciated wisdom. Special thanks to Eleanor Wood, Justin Bell, and Kris Bell at Spectrum Literary Agency, and to Ethan Ellenberg at the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. Most of all to my daughter, Catherine Cannizzo, with all my love.