I gratefully acknowledge Frank Irby at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, as well as Yothin Amnuayphol and Cheryl Guggenheim, for showing me the potter’s art. I am also indebted to Peter Dickinson’s The Flight of Dragons for the anatomy of dragon flight.
Thanks to Becky Huntting for her excellent proofreading of the manuscript.
Thanks, too, to all the members of my two critique groups for valuable criticism and moral support; and particularly to Eloise McGraw, who took time to read and comment on the entire manuscript.
I’m especially grateful to my husband, Jerry, and my daughter, Kelly, for inspiration and for their unflagging patience and faith in the project.
Finally, heartfelt thanks to Ellen Howard for her generous help at every stage of this book, and for the word “draclings.”