Labyrinth

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to Nelia Chalmers and Guilhermes Damian for their help with the Portuguese. Thanks also to my sister Elizabeth and her husband ’Tagh for help and advice about magical implements. And to all the usual suspects who make these books happen: my agents at JABberwocky; Anne Sowards and the rest of the amazing editorial and publication team at Penguin who let me keep my title and who make these books look so good; and my husband, Jim, who may never get to be a “kept man,” but might get a few bon-bons out of this gig. . . .

Also thanks to the cool writers of Team Seattle and beyond for keeping my brain straight during all the insanity of the past year-and-a-half: Cherie, Richelle, Caitlin, Mark, Mario, Nicole, Jaye, Jackie, Stacia, Diana R, and Tiffany T. And to Rob Thurman and Laura Ann Gilman for the best con after-hours ever. To David Thompson and the crew at Murder By the Book in Houston for “forcing” me to go to Texas in midsummer. To MaryElizabeth Hart for solving problems and being fun as well at SDCC 2009. To the ever-gracious Charlaine Harris. To Victor Gischler, to whom I owe a beer or three. To Ana Choi who put me at the right table at the wedding. And to everyone I forgot: I apologize for my Swiss cheese memory.