ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks for the
support, feedback, and many memorable Wednesday evenings at Darthia
Farm goes to the Peninsulans: Annaliese (of Greywood) Jakimides,
Elizabeth Noyes, Melinda Rice (OSSC), and Cynthia
Thayer.
As always, thanks to
team DAW for all they do to publish terrific books, especially my
editor, Betsy Wollheim.
Thank you also to my
agents Anna Ghosh and Danny Baror for helping to get my books out
into the world.
My thanks to Ruth
Stuart and Jill Shultz for providing comments and/or suggestions on
certain aspects of the story. Thank you to Leila Saad for the use
of her Italian carnival mask!
Thank you to Roger
Czerneda for designing the all-new www.kristenbritain.com site and entertaining me
with assorted apple flingings. And of course to his wonderful
significant other, Julie, for her continuing encouragement and
peach muffins.
I am always grateful
for the existence of Acadia National Park for providing so much
inspiration and mental and physical retreat over the years.
Likewise for the music of Enya, Moya Brennan, Tingstad &
Rumbel, and others that is often serene backdrop to my
writing.
Finally, I always
mention my four-legged buddies here because they mean so much to me
and are generally great writer companions. Sadly, my last feline
muse, Percy, a.k.a. Silly Orange Boy, passed away during the
writing of this book, which is in part dedicated to him. He will
never be forgotten.
As for Gryphon?
Terriers to the fore! Want cookies!