Thanks to my early readers for their generosity and support: Jock Watt, Kate de Ruty, Deborah Aronson, Don McIntyre, Taliesin Porter, Sal Nolan, Trish Waddington, Kate Dagher. Thanks to Barry Oakley for his wisdom and faith in a struggling writer. A special thanks to Trinh Huu Tuan for believing in me as an author from the very beginning; to Robert Alan Jamieson, poet, writer, teacher and dear friend.
Thanks to my agent Sheila Drummond, whose tenacity is legendary; to my U.S. agent Peter McGuigan (aka the Boy) at Foundry Media for his amazing matchmaking skills; to Anne Cherry for a superb job—copyediting Scottish is not easy. And to my editor Sarah Durand for her wisdom and insight.
And of course, Hugh.