Acknowledgments

As always, thanks go out to Steve Kwan, Leanne Tremblay, Tristan Brand, and Mary Gilbert, who read each and every Owl installment. Their encouragement keeps the series going.

I also have to thank my agent, Carolyn Forde, who picked the original Owl and the Japanese Circus manuscript out of the slush pile; my editor, Adam Wilson, who makes Owl that much better and puts up with me; and Brendan May for his encouragement and handling logistics at S&S Canada. There are many other people who have mentored and encouraged me in my writing career—thank you all!

Finally, there is one nonhuman without whom this series would never have been written, and that is my cat, Captain Flash, on whom the character Captain is absolutely based.