Author’s Note
First, the disclaimers:
1. My day job is at a law firm, but none of the people at Perry’s firm are modeled after anybody I’ve ever met, worked for, or worked with.
2. Similarly, I am not a lawyer. I’ve had some training in legal research and a short course in real estate law while in paralegal school, but I am by no means an expert. If I messed something up, please remember that this is a work of fantasy and may be set in an alternate universe.
3. I am pretty confident that I am neither Ute nor Lakota. My understanding of their gods and cultures is based solely on what I’ve read. If I messed something up, see item 2 above.
4. I haven’t lived in Colorado since 1999, although I have visited from time to time since then. The settings in this novel are as accurate as my (admittedly faulty) memory and Google Earth can make them. If I messed something up, see item 2 above.
Now, the appreciation part:
Kurt Vonnegut once said there are two kinds of people: the ones who are fabulously well-to-do, and the ones who have doodly squat. I consider myself to be fabulously well-to-do in terms of my support team. Heartfelt thanks this time around go to Susan Strayer, who read the first and second drafts, and confirmed all my worst fears (she is a terrific editor! You should hire her!); my Sisters of the Silver Branch, Susan Reed, Anne Brophy and Judy Gibson, for their advice on cover design and their general moral support; and my friends at kevinswatch.ihugny.com, particularly the guys in the Loresraat who told me about GIMP, and the folks who participated in the discussion on greed in The Close back when I was beginning to think about the “big ideas” behind this series. Thanks, too, to the authors and bloggers at The Indie Exchange, who are chock full of good advice on every aspect of indie publishing, and especially to Donna Brown, who runs it. This book would be a disaster without all of you.
Lynne Cantwell
March 2012
About the Author
Lynne Cantwell is a former broadcast journalist who has worked at Mutual/NBC Radio News, CNN, and a bunch of other places you have probably never heard of. She has a master's degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. She lives near Washington, DC, with her daughter and her daughter’s cat. This is her third novel.
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