So much gratitude to everyone who helped bring Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die into this challenging reality.

That starts with the folks who backed and amplified the kickstarter. Putting together projects like this require more capital that a brand new small press has lying around, and getting that financial support from backers was a gamechanger. Thanks as well to the folks who signed up for Club Serpentine, and didn’t know what they might be in for!

To the contributors who signed up from jump: Christopher Caldwell-Kelly, Cherae Clark, Marianne Kirby, Jordan Kurella, LeKesha Lewis, and Brendan Williams-Childs. Doubly so to Marianne, who tolerated all manner of other questions and provided innumerable thoughtful suggestions. To Molly, for sharing her thoughts on many of the early stories to come in. To Charles Payseur, for hosting a post-apocalyptic conversation at Quick Sip Reviews.

To the writers who added their voices to discussions on Twitter about queer community and disability in the apocalypse: R J Theodore, Nibedita Sen, Andi C. Buchanan, Christopher Caldwell-Kelly, Morgan Swim, Juliet Kemp, Ada Hoffman, V. Medina, and Jordan Kurella.

To Avery Alder, who graciously allowed me to include her game Dream Askew in these pages. Time and again, I’m struck by Avery’s reminder that there are folks experiencing collapse now, every day, even before the world experienced a global pandemic. I hope those of you who haven’t played a tabletop game before will consider telling stories together through Avery’s beautiful system.

To Grace, for your stunning cover. I’m so grateful for the thought and detail you put into every aspect of it. I’ll confess, I’ve never been drawn to rainbow flags, but the tattered colors you hung over this ragged crew speak to me.

To Michael and Ian and the Mason Jar Press crew. I’d never be here without Broken Metropolis.

To Bobby, always.

And to all the other friends, family, and queers in the pub who cheered me on along the way.