I would not have been able to put this project together without the grace of the authors who allowed me permission to reprint their work. Skyboat Media has been a delight to work with in the production of the audiobook. Galen Dara for her wonderful art, Polgarus Studios for their work on the interior layouts, and Pat R. Steiner for the cover layout.
Alex Shvartsman was invaluable in the planning of the logistics of the Kickstarter project and the selfpublishing details. Tasha Turner Lennhoff shared valuable insight from her experience with Kickstarter. Others, including Christie Yant, John Joseph Adams, and Andi O’Connor were willing to field questions to help my first time at this go as smoothly as possible.
My writer friends, especially those of Codex and of Dire Turtle, I could not have done this without your feedback and your support and most of all your enthusiasm. With a big project like this outside of my past experience, it would have been easy to be daunted and decide to just find something else to do with my time, but when I shared my ideas, that enthusiasm sustained me and drove me to make the project as big and as great as I could.
There are so many who helped make the Kickstarter for this anthology a success. 416 backers who gave enough to not only produce the ebook and print edition, but also to fund the audiobook edition produced by Skyboat Media.
Many wonderful and talented people offered rewards for the Kickstarter as well: Rachael K. Jones, Sam J. Miller, Ruthanna Emrys, Rachel Swirsky, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Galen Dara, Wilson Fowlie, Graeme Dunlop, Anaea Lay, Cassie Alexander, Yoon Ha Lee, and Usman T. Malik.
Many people helped spread the word, including Mike Glyer at File770, Andrew Liptak at IO9, Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, James Aquilone at SF Signal, and Alasdair Stuart at Escape Artists.
Thank you all, so much.
—David Steffen—