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enjoyed with my books.
I'd like to thank a few of them in particular and in no particular order,
dangit
:
Morgen, for being one of the first friendly faces. Deann, despite DaGiN Ball.
Genghis Kratman, newest author Barfly, who's like a brother. Katie/Inga for
always being up for a round of groupieness. Wyman for always being out there
helping. skippy (sic) for not always being around.
I'd like to thank the technical crew, Conrad, Phil, Doug and Ken Burnside for
making some vague sense of my technical inanities.
I'd like to thank Russ Isler and Darius Garsys for turning my descriptions
into real, breathing, living objects.
Most especially I'd like to thank Joe Buckley and Glennis LeBlanc for being
two of the best First
Readers in the business and putting up with my various pranks.
Oh, and I'd like to thank Karin my wife for, once again, putting up with me
when I was under deadline.
Naturally, I'm going to forget some people, some of whom have made important
contributions. To anyone who was left out, I'm sorry I missed you and I'll try
to make it up in some other books.
Maps
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Sluggy Freelance
Back in July of 2001, when I was slavishly at work on When the Devil Dances,
one of my acquaintances sent me an innocuous e-mail. Like shaking the hand of
a person with smallpox or juggling rats that have bubonic plague, it's always
the small things that get you.
The first Sluggy Freelance that anyone sent me was of Bun-Bun preparing for
Santa's arrival. Without background it was puzzling rather than amusing. Then,
later, I got another. That one intrigued me enough to look at some of the
early comics. When I got to "Say the N word again and I'll do it to you with a
spoon!" I was well and truly hooked. On a rather slow dial-up I lost solid
weeks of production time, repeatedly hitting "next comic" like a rat tapping
the bar for its cocaine fix. And then...it was over. I was trapped in the
fixation of waiting for my daily Sluggy! Wah!
But...not quite. The insidiousness of Sluggy had entered my brain. I needed a
big tank, I had created the big tank. But it had no life, no fire, no spirit.
No...evil... And so, BUN-BUN THE SHEVA was born! "I
am created Bun-Bun! Destroyer of Worlds!"
So I found myself a Sluggite (the term for serious Sluggy Freelance fans) in
the almost unique position to take Sluggy into a new world. And, along the
way, infect some of my own readers.
I took the opportunity to go to DragonCon and meet Pete Abrams, Sluggy's
creator, and get his permission to use the terms in my works. He seemed
somewhat confused, I admit that I probably came across as an obsessed fan-boy,
but nodded his willingness despite his bemusement. But when the book came out,
the level of correspondence about the cross-over took both of us by surprise.
Neither of us saw huge market jumps, but we both received fairly massive
commentary on the crossover. It seemed to be successful.
Since the next year I was, once again, working on a Posleen book, I met Pete
at DragonCon for the second time. In the meantime I had infected my publisher
with the Sluggite disease and he had stated that he wanted Sluggy artwork in
the next book. From there, Pete created the concept of "What would happen if
Sluggy Freelance was in the Posleen universe?"
For those of you who are simply bemused by this cross-over, I hope that the
books stand on their own. And to those of you who have, like myself, my
publisher, his office, various friends and relations and apparently dozens,
hundreds, of readers, been drawn off your normal day to day routine to
slavishly hit "next comic" until they run out:
Sucks to be us, huh?
Better to juggle bubonic rats.
Thanks Pete. And I hope you all enjoy.
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