My beta readers: Ian Ellison—the guy’s read every version of this book, like, a million times, so if it sucks, it’s his fault. Seriously, not my fault—Ian’s. And of course, you can also blame Dan Salinas, Russ Mitchell, David Siddal, Bradford Stephens, Ben Murphy, and Gabe Coelho-Kostolny.
Group hug: Ryan “Brian Porter” Potter and the family; Vaughn, AJ, and Renee; my Scottish family: Chief, Dog, G, Martinho, Ike of Spain; Wes Wasson; Richard Jefferies Woodruff and the Chardmo (two completely different people); Chris and Donna Rosa; “Fun” Bobby Brown; Anthony “Garlique” Mansfield; Simon Wardley; Simon Crosby; Craig “Makes Lovely Pictures” Allen; Tomer “Tomash” Schwartz; Chris “Beaker” Hoff; Meredith “Etoile” Peruzzi; Mel “Spunky” Stanley; Dan “Gilmore” Burford; Barbara “Eclipse” Reece; Wade “Pandaflip” Bell; Danny Ryan; “Not So Big” Ben Morris; “Acceptable Up” Shepdog; Sean “Chester” Manchester; Patricia “Margarita del Toro” Chavez; Hillary “Hillycake” Qualtieri; Lai Long; Mr. and Mrs. Goodgroove; Sean “Hardway” Johnston; Lisa Carlini; Mark Gebert; Sam Johnston; Heather Fitzsimmons; Mike Spinney; Kevin Kosh; Kristy “Shut Up” Cowart; Michael Kellerman; Carlos Estaban; Angela and Mark Broxterman; Julie and Tom Warmbrodt; Naddine and Mike Morgan; Matt “the Tax Ninja” Whatley; Greg Silverman; and Ben Luntz.
Oliver Evilord for pointing out that Talking Heads’s “Psycho Killer,” although classified as New Wave, was released in 1977 and thus would not have qualified for Joel’s 1980s New Wave mix.
The Inkshares crew: Thad, Avalon, Elena, Angela. Heart emojis, yay.
Scott Meyer: without Martin Banks, there would be no Joel Byram.
Legendary Entertainment and Geek & Sundry: Rachel Romero, Alex Hedlund, Rob Manuel, and of course, Felicia Day.
Howie Sanders and the UTA crew: thanks for putting your faith in me.
Ajar and everyone at Penguin Magic—you guys really helped make this happen.
Jean-Francois Dubeau, Jamison Stone, and Brian Guthrie—thanks for talking me off the ledge. Shouts to all other Inkshares and Quill authors.
Oh no, I’m out of words! To those I’ve missed: may I live a thousand years and never hunt again.
LIST OF PATRONS
Acar Altinsel Adam Gomolin Adam Helfgott Avi Klein
Chris Coluzzi Christopher L. Rosa Danelle Au
Dov Calderon Dylan F. Weiss Galit Klein Gregory P. Dolan Gur Talpaz
Jeremy Steinman John C. Bertrand John.Fanelli Joshua J. Gorciak Kwang Kim
Mark R. Shuttleworth Mike P. Wertz Peter Birdsall Peter J. Downing Peter Lindstrom Rachel Jane Perkins Richard Woodruff Robert A. Brown Ryan Potter Russell Mitchell Sean Manchester Steven Moody Tom Howie
Todd D. Smith Victor Y. Thu Wes Wasson
Yona Klein
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