ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My grateful thanks to:

Caroline Oakley, my editor, for her patience, insight and expertise

Alison Sinclair for long-distance writerly encouragement and commiserations

Steve Jeffery and Vikki Lee-France – for cheering me up

David Pringle: the Lifhendil first appeared in my short story ‘Airs from Another Planet’ in Interzone

And Michael, Tom and Chris

Many thanks are due to Marcelle Natisin for her expressive cover art, to agents John Richard Parker and John Berlyne of Zeno Literary Agency Inc. and to Joshua Bilmes, Jessie Cammack, and Lisa Rodgers of JABberwocky for giving Songspinners a new lease of life as an e-book!