Acknowledgments

Successful polyamory is a group effort. So perhaps it's fitting that the efforts of a great many people went into creating this book. Without their help and support, More Than Two would not exist. Writing this book was a long road, and a lot changed between the first draft and what you're reading now. Substantive editing was done by Alan M. MacRobert, who not only worked very hard to turn our draft into lucid prose, but filled in gaps, contributed ideas, and challenged us to address ideas and constituencies we'd overlooked.

Shelly DeForte contributed her wisdom and insight through written contributions to chapters 3, 7, 9 and 15, among others. Pepper Mint provided important contributions to the section on LBGTQ communities in chapter 25, as well as valuable feedback on an early draft. Sophia Kelly, Aggie Sez and two anonymous reviewers also provided feedback on several key chapters. The members of the poly women's discussion group in Vancouver, B.C., provided valuable feedback and discussion of ideas. We're also grateful to Janet Hardy, co-author of The Ethical Slut and poly pioneer, for supporting the book by contributing the foreword.

You'll find many stories throughout this book, both ours and other people's. These stories help illustrate the many lessons we've learned on our journey. The names you'll see other than ours are pseudonyms, and we have changed or removed some identifying details to maintain anonymity. We have taken care to choose stories we were involved in directly, stories that at least one participant has given us permission to use, or stories that were disclosed to us more than ten years ago and were not disclosed in a confidential setting.

We're grateful to Paul Mendoza for the beautiful cover illustration, and to Tatiana Gill for the interior illustrations. We're also tremendously lucky to have had a first-rate production team, who provided fantastic work on a very tight production schedule: Naomi Pauls, who copy-edited the manuscript; Vanessa Rossi, who designed the cover; Mari Chijiiwa, who designed and typeset the interior; Roma Ilnyckyj, who proofread the book; and Krista Smith, who prepared the index and provided detailed research and fact-checking for chapter 20. Any errors that remain in the book are our sole responsibility.

We received generous sponsorships for writing and production from Kenneth R. Haslam, MD, curator of the polyamory collection for the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, and from Alan M. MacRobert and Ola Rozenfeld. The balance of the project was funded by a crowdfunding campaign, made successful by the support of many people who provided either material support in the form of rewards, or publicity in the form of a platform for our ideas. These people included Greta Christina, Abzu Emporium, Kendra Holliday, Louisa Leontiades, Alan MacRobert, Cunning Minx, Christopher Ryan, Aggie Sez and Elisabeth Sheff. Of course, we could not have completed this project without the 455 people who contributed to our campaign; those who contributed $25 or more are listed here, and the rest are credited morethantwo.com/book.

Franklin would also like to thank his other partners, referred to in the book as Vera, Amy, Amber and Sylvia—not only for their support on the book but also for filling his life with love and awesomeness. Eve is thankful to her husband, Peter, and her girlfriend, Paloma, for their emotional support and ideas, and for tolerating her long physical and emotional absences during the writing and editing. We'd both like to thank our mothers for being amazing.

Though they may not know it, this book wouldn't exist without a peculiar chain of events involving U.S. NASA, the Mars Curiosity mission, Phil Plait, Paul Fenwick and Twitter.

The first draft of More Than Two was written in a log cabin deep in the remote wilderness of rural Washington, where Kay and Harry Hibler—and their cat—graciously let us stay (and collect mushrooms!) for six weeks. We are immensely grateful for the opportunity they provided us, and the book would not be what it is without their generosity and hospitality. The stunning, handcrafted cabin, affectionately known as Hibler Hill, is an inspiring monument to loving, creative partnerships, making it an especially fitting place to have created this book.