by Phil Wrede
Acknowledgments:
Phil would especially like to thank Amy West for her constant encouragement, boundless patience, and invaluable editing on this book. Thanks, as well, to anyone who's chimed in and/or bought a copy of a tome during the “Year of the Book” project in 2017. You might've thought your kind words were just that, but they absolutely, undeniably meant the world. It's been written before, but it bears repeating: no one does anything alone; no one creates anything alone. Thanks to anyone and everyone for inspiration and support.
Matt would like to thank his wife, and his cat.
The text on the front and back covers are in the BlackHole BB and Skin Deep BB fonts, licensed from Blambot.com. The interior text, in Optima.
About the author, Phil Wrede:
Raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains by loving and supportive parents, as a child Phil was either forced, or fortunate, to have to fill his head with fictional terrors, rather than real ones. In time, he became aware of the rest of the world, and realized his imagination couldn't hold a candle to reality. Having wanted to write since the age of twelve, he eagerly filed all these terrors away for future inspiration. The only thing he's spent more time on in the intervening years than reading and writing is developing his own personal, impossibly intricate conspiracy theory that immediately disproves itself the second he tries to explain it aloud. They say that a cynic is just a disappointed idealist; deep down, Phil knows that's true, especially for him. He currently resides in Colorado, with his girlfriend, Amy, her ridiculous and ridiculously affectionate dog, Benedict, and their carefully-curated bookshelves of movies, comic books, and books and comic books about movies.
About the cover artist, Matt Muse:
“POTATO!!!...POTATO!!!...POTATO!!!...”