In Loving Memory of Robert A. George and Donald R. George
In Loving Memory of Robert A. George and Donald R. George
In Loving Memory of Robert A. George and Donald R. George
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Acknowledgements<br />
These are thank-yous to family, friends <strong>and</strong> more <strong>of</strong>ten total strangers who<br />
have given their time with no pay to help the me make my book a reality.<br />
All these good Samaritans get in return is their name on an<br />
acknowledgements page.<br />
First I would like to thank my editor, Claire Born. (Okay, she did get<br />
paid.) I would also like to thank Tom Howe for his editing assistance <strong>and</strong><br />
“Filet-Zero-Fish.”<br />
Thank you to my Beta-readers. These are the poor schnooks I conned<br />
into reading my horrible first draft: Barb Ericksen (who is more <strong>of</strong> a<br />
content editor), Betty Bennett (okay it’s my mom, but she’s good at<br />
finding typos), Cory D. Brown, Mary Linda Augenstein, Art Bennett,<br />
Janet Brodie, April Raines, Simon Lloyd, Christine Taylor, Christina<br />
Gullickson, Sherrill Fink, Pauline Lupercio, Linda Freeman, <strong>and</strong> David<br />
Bale. Thank you for your comments <strong>and</strong> suggestions.<br />
Thank you to Fangarius a.k.a. Chris on Twitter for allowing me to<br />
swipe his brilliant term “the Bradburian Effect.”<br />
Thank you to MisCon Writer’s Workshop <strong>and</strong> the critiquers: M. J.<br />
Engh, James Glass, Harry Turtledove <strong>and</strong> Mike Stackpole.<br />
Thank you to MeiLin Mir<strong>and</strong>a, Nathan Lowell, Brian Rathbone,<br />
Andrea Howe, Patricia Briggs <strong>and</strong> Jay Lake for their advice.<br />
Thank you to all the writers who speak on panels at Science Fiction<br />
conventions like RadCon, OryCon, MisCon <strong>and</strong> SpoCon, giving advice to<br />
new writers in return for the privilege <strong>of</strong> giving us a fifteen second pitch<br />
on their latest book. (Hardly a fair trade.) I would name you all, but there<br />
are dozens.<br />
Thank you to John Aidiniantz, Assistant Curator, at the Sherlock<br />
Holmes Museum in London for answering my questions on hansom cabs.<br />
They have a real hansom cab they rent out for weddings, etc. which makes<br />
them experts on hansoms.<br />
Thank you Christine Brown - Archives <strong>and</strong> Local Studies Assistant at<br />
Wolverhampton, UK for trying to help me track down the safe for the<br />
Koh-I-Noor diamond. It still existed in the 1950s <strong>and</strong> is probably now in<br />
some naïve person’s parlor being used as a parrot cage.<br />
And special thanks to Twitter <strong>and</strong> Blogger for letting my fictional<br />
character Dr. Wendell Howe become “real.” And thank you to all my<br />
followers. Every time I was about to throw in the towel, someone would
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