I never know where an idea is going to come from—what combination of reading, life, research, and random events is going to make me go, “Oh, hey, I know what’d be fun.” But sometimes I can identify the final piece of it. The idea for this book came from a conversation with my friend and poker teacher Chris “Pokerfox” Wallace. We were discussing a writing project of his, and he mentioned some things that he was doing that made me go, “Oh, wow, I gotta try that.” So I stole it.
How much of what I grabbed and ran through my own process would be recognizable from the idea he gave me? I don’t know. But if his work makes its way into the world, and you read it, and something strikes you as familiar, I want you to know that he didn’t get it from me, I got it from him. Thanks, Fox.
Steven Brust
May 2015
Minneapolis