Thank you, thank you, thank you to Paul Lucas and David Pomerico for helping me to finally get this done, and to Paul Morrissey and the folks at Wizards of the Coast for letting it fly. Now is the right time for it.
My thanks to Mireya Chiriboga for your patience and attention to all the little details that make something like this work.
And a very big thank-you to Evan Winter. Writers never really know their place in the world. We hope we’re writing well and doing good. The introduction for this book humbles me and makes me warm. Thank you, Evan.