Acknowledgments

The longer an author develops a series, the more canon its new books must adhere to, and the more difficult it is to remember it all. This is particularly true of settings like the Pelted universe, which have multiple standalone series with interlocking timelines. My first readers are golden folk and catch not just typos and issues within the book... they also catch continuity errors referring to multiple other books as well, and Amulet Rampant was an especially thorny problem for us all.

This novel, then, would have been far poorer without the services of Madison (Schaeffer), Sarah, Lola (McCrary), Bertha, Jennifer, Phil (Olynyk), and Anastasia. Your comments made me laugh, reassured me that I was on the right track, pulled me up by the nose when I wasn’t, and gave me plenty of fodder for future stories because Good Gracious, you are all full of questions. Watching you interact with one another while debating your differences of opinion over this scene or backing each other up on problems with that sentence was one of the more rewarding experiences of my career. I loved every moment of it. Thank you so much.

Thank you also to the fans who tell me that they like my brand of mixing intimacy, philosophy, and conflict in a single story. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, so every time someone sends me a note, leaves me a Livejournal comment, or writes me a review saying ‘more like this’, it matters.

From here on out, the war gets going. I hope you’ll enjoy the ride.

 

—M