To my family and friends-who-are-family, especially my mom, Judy; my sister, Susan; and brother-in-law, Chris; my cousins Beth, Jeff, and Kalliope; Craig and Karen; Geoff, Denise, and Garrett; the Edingers, Harneds, Sinnotts, and Wildes; the Winchesters; Melissa Maddonni Haims, Nanita Cranford, Jennifer Etheridge, Jeff Hugel, Claudia and Jack Etheridge, Wendy and Dan Magus, Nancy Caudill, Sara Costello, Karen and David Beaudouin, and the Henry family. To Charlotte Camp and Rebecca Beach. To the Ginsberg-Joyce family.
To you, reading this book right now.
And to a special place on the Chesapeake Bay near Worton, Maryland, where I first learned how to fly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fran Wilde’s acclaimed short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She has worked as a science and engineering writer, as a programmer and game developer, as a sailing assistant, and as a jeweler’s assistant. She blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books (franwilde.wordpress.com/cooking-the-books) and for the popular social-parenting website GeekMom. Wilde lives in Pennsylvania with her family. You can sign up for email updates here.
