The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (32 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It would be remiss of me to omit mention of the coffee shops that had a part in the creation of this novel. First and foremost, Caffe Pergolesi in Santa Cruz, which served (very loosely) as the model for Genius Loci; Café Au Coquelet in Berkeley, where I completed much of the major revision; and Café DiBartolo in Oakland, where I did most of the line-editing.

I listened to a lot of great bluegrass, insurgent country, and cowpunk while writing this, notably Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, the Old 97s, Paul Thorn, Son Volt, Todd Snider, the Two Dollar Pistols, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Wilco, and, of course, all the good stuff they play on KPIG radio out of Freedom, California.

A lot of people made my life better during the course of writing this book. Thanks to Scott Seagroves and Lynne Raschke for their generous hospitality in Santa Cruz, when I first moved there and after I moved away; to Megan Parker, for listening early on, and to Marissa Lingen, for encouraging me when I wanted to stop; to the readers who gave me feedback on the raw first draft: Christopher Barzak, Jennifer A. Hall, Melinda R. Himel, Michael J. Jasper, Jay Lake, David Moles, Jenn Reese, and Greg van Eekhout; to my coworkers at
Locus,
for giving me the best day job a writer could have; to my agent Ginger Clark, for taking a chance; and to my edi-tor Juliet Ulman, for making this a far better book than it would have been otherwise. And finally, thanks to Heather Shaw, for everything.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T
IM
P
RATT
has been nominated for the Nebula Award and for the Campbell Best New Writer Award, and his fiction has appeared in
Best American Short Stories
and
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
He lives in Oakland, California, where he co-edits a literary ’zine,
Flytrap,
with his fiancée Heather Shaw.