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Look what came in the mail! Mirabile dictu, my copies arrived before publication date--the first time this has ever happened to me.
In celebration of which, let me share with you the acknowledgements page. This is a strange paraliterary form that has blossomed in recent decades to such a decree that they're routinely mocked online for their pretentiousness. But I enjoy reading them, just to get a sense of some of what goes into a novel, and it's possible that one or two others present here might as well.
I am grateful to the (alas) late Lucius Shepard for giving
me permission to quote from “The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter.” To Byron
Tetrick for flight protocols. To Tom Purdom for the culture of military life.
To Anatoly Belilovsky for the nomenclature of Russian megalizards. To Bill
Gibson for once again providing a character with the wristwatch juste. To Marcin Pągowski for help with
the Polish language. To Kevin Bolz for help with Breton naming. To Ellen
Kushner for Satie’s Gnossiennes. To
Barbara Frost for the banker’s calculator. To my son Sean for Faerie
realpolitik and for choreographing the dragon-fight. To Barbara Weitbrecht for
marine creatures. To Tom Doyle for supplying the motto of the Dragon Corps and
to Mario Rups for Latinate grammatical antecedents. To Janis Ian for permission
to quote from “Jesse.” To the late and sorely missed Gardner Dozois for
teaching me how to write in the first place. And to the M. C. Porter Endowment
for the Arts for life, love, and everything else.
And speaking of the Image Book . . .
Okay, yes, this is kinda creepy. But let's be honest here. While there's not a lot of overt sex happening in the novel, there's ton of it crawling around under the surface.
Both pages are collages, both mine.
Above: For those who came in late, my latest novel, The Iron Dragon's Mother, will
be published in 12 days. To draw attention to this fact, I'm
serializing the Image Book I made to help me imagine a strange world for
the book.
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