The 'Geisters

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Each novel is a different game for me, but there is a reassuring consistency to the people who help and support and love, and thereby earn my gratitude each time. So it is with The ’Geisters. The members of the Cecil Street writers’ group and the Gibraltar Point summer writers’ group all gave excellent advice: to whit, Madeline Ashby, Michael Carr, Laurie Channer, Rebecca Maines, John McDaid, Elizabeth Mitchell, Janis O’Connor, Helen Rykens, Karl Schroeder, Sara Simmons, Michael Skeet, Jill Snider Lum, Dale Sproule, Rob Stauffer, Caitlin Sweet, Peter Watts and Allan Weiss all share much of the credit and none of the blame for the contents of this book. That goes double for Sandra Kasturi, who’s edited all my books to within an inch of their lives so far, and has at various points brought this one back from the dead. ChiZine Publications has, as usual, delivered along with Sandra, a crew of phenomenal artists, editors, publicists and publishers in the persons of Erik Mohr, Kelsi Morris, Brett Savory, Helen Marshall, Laura Marshall, Sam Beiko, Danny Evarts, Michael Matheson, and Beverly Bambury, who contributed to both the genesis of this project and the launch of the last one in 2012, in a continuum of support, encouragement and aid. The phenomenal singer/songwriter Kari Maaren composed and performed a theme song for The ’Geisters—I had it on a nearly continuous loop during the final edits in early 2013. And of course my agent Monica Pacheco and the Anne McDermid Literary Agency provided consistently excellent support, advice and representation.