All's Fair (Fair Folk Chronicles Book 4) (21 page)

Acknowledgements

As we close the Fair Folk Chronicles (for now), we look back and think about all the people who have had a hand in shaping this world or supporting us while we wrote it. In that look back, we can only really think but one thing: wow, there's a lot of you.

To all of the friends, family, and fans who have provided kind words, general support, and a book purchase, thank you. We appreciate you all, but we only have so much space here.

Thank you to our beta readers. You guys helped us know not only what needed improving, but also what you needed more of.

Thank you to the artists who helped give visual life to the series—Clarissa Yeo and Christopher Kovacs, of course, but also Madison Keller, Danielle Harada, Shayna Walsh, Kaylin Anderson, Nikki Becklinger, Matthew Rose, and David Burke.

So much of this series is about music and our lifelong love of it. So thank you to Jessica De Leon and Kenneth Petrie in particular.

Thanks to the cosplay crew who have taken our words, and turned them into living, breathing people at various conventions and events: James Lozlink Garret, Evangeline Young, Lizzy Lu Cyanite, Nora Paxton Timmerman, Sierra Till, and Jessica Nelson.

Thanks to our support crew in various endeavors here: Jessa Grey, Tai Sager, Jackie Faye, and the Clockwork Dragon authors.

And in a story all about inspiration and imagination, some special thanks to people for contributions that combine multiple of the above, and/or go a bit beyond—and helped inspire us along the way. Kate, in particular would like to thank Jason Cline for the "Loki as Pharmabro" conversation. Jeff would like to call out Sheri Budrow, who his housemate still insists is really Cassia cosplaying from time to time as Sheri.

And finally, we'd like to thank some of the other inspirations. Plenty have been noted or alluded to in the series. In no particular order, and not totally inclusive, we'd still like to say thank you to David Bowie, Terry Pratchett, Richard Dadd, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Alexander James Adams, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, The Dead Milkmen, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter, and Ross Whitehead.

www.authorjeffreycook.com

www.punkwriters.com

www.clockworkdragon.com

About the Authors

Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's the author of the
Dawn of Steam
trilogy of alternate-history/emergent Steampunk epistolary novels and of the YA Sci-fi thriller
Mina Cortez: From Bouquets to Bullets
. He’s a founding contributing author of Writerpunk Press and has also contributed to a number of role-playing game books for Deep7 Press out of Seattle. When not reading, researching, or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football.

Katherine Perkins lives in Mobile, Alabama, with her husband and one extremely skittish cat. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and will defend its cuisine on any field of honor. She is the editor of the
Dawn of Steam
series and serves as Jeff’s co-author of various short stories, including those for the charity anthologies of Writerpunk Press. When not reading, researching, writing, or editing, she tries to remember what she was supposed to be doing.