Acknowledgements

Ross E. Lockhart for his most excellent advice.

The “Open Call: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Pulp Markets” group on Facebook for helping to spread the word about our first open call.

For the invaluable feedback from our Alpha Readers: Cat Ellison, David Hoster, Vanessa Jacob, Heather Noe, Melody Rickard, Jax Sanders, and Candis V. Stauber.

L. H. Davis would like to thank his wife, Gloria, for her patience and willingness to beta-read even long manuscripts multiple times.

E. E. King wishes to thank Larry Hussar and Stephen Skolnick from PhysicsCentral.

Robert Lowell Russell would like to thank the members of his writers' group, Writeshop, for their help with “Love That Easy Money”. His fellow Writeshoppers provided him with invaluable feedback on not one but FOUR different versions until he finally got it right. He couldn't have done it without them, nor could he have done it without the patience of his wife and daughter, who often asked, "What is he DOING in front of that computer all the time?"

Patrice Sarath would like to thank Bill Ledbetter for encouraging her to write “Murder on the Hohmann and the Cryptopolis Writers of Austin, Texas for their feedback.

Nancy S.M. Waldman would like to thank her writing mentors: Sherry D. Ramsey and Julie A. Serroul, her writing tribe: VP17, and her first reader and second husband: Barry.