Acknowledgements

Thanks, first and foremost, to my wife June—first reader, thoughtful critic, and story proposer.

To the TouchWood Editions team of dedicated professionals—publisher Taryn Boyd, marketing and publicity coordinator Tori Elliott, editorial co-ordinator Renée Layberry, designer Colin Parks, and proofreader Claire Philipson—I offer my sincere thanks. I must also express gratitude to my always patient (and relentlessly vigilant) editor, Marlyn Horsdal, who as publisher of Horsdal and Schubart brought the first Spinner’s Inlet to readers way back when.

I will always remember the Gulf Islanders we knew as part-time residents of Galiano Island. It’s been a great pleasure to recall them and their often weird and wonderful outlooks on life.