Crowbones

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks to Blair Boone for continuing to be my first reader and for providing encouragement and feedback in the story’s roughest stage; to Debra Dixon for being second reader; to Doranna Durgin for maintaining the Web site; to Adrienne Roehrich for running the official fan page and Ashley Laxton for running the Anne Bishop Fans and Anne Bishop Fans—Spoiler Group pages on Facebook; to Jennifer Crow for luring me into the nonfiction section of bookstores and showing me all sorts of other possibilities to explore; to Anne Sowards and Jennifer Jackson for the feedback that helps me write a better story; to all the publicity and marketing folks at PRH who help get the book into readers’ hands; and to Pat Feidner for always being supportive and encouraging.

A special thanks to all the friends who offered to let me use their names for characters in the Others’ world. You know who you are.