Thanks for the support of sweaty and fretful writers are due to:
Hiding people's names so trolls won't get them, I thank family members Ed, Steve, Kristin, Lisa, Dave, and Allen; friends N.S. and Paul Gill, as well as Abbie, Joe, Olivia, Katina, and several people at the SAAs in Chicago who I blabbed to over beers. Sorry about that, but thanks for listening!
Literary and Academic Inspirations
In addition to the various resources I found for plot points, I wish to thank the following writers in no particular order:
Octavia Butler ("Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts"), Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Kate Wilhelm, Ursula LeGuin, Jodi Taylor, Philip Jose Farmer, Gene Wolfe, Lord Dunsany, Jane Langton, Jane Austen, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Max Shulman, L. Frank Baum, Sydney Newman, Stephen Moffat, Harold Ross, Red Smith, E.B. White, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Richard Thompson, Alexander McCall Smith, Hilary B. Price, Laurie R. King, Jennifer Pournelle, Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Kenneth Weiss, Suzette Haden Elgin, Alison Wylie, Alice Kehoe, C.J. Cherryh, Bob Hall, Ruth Rendell... more to come as I think about it.
Hiding people's names so trolls won't get them, I thank family members Ed, Steve, Kristin, Lisa, Dave, and Allen; friends N.S. and Paul Gill, as well as Abbie, Joe, Olivia, Katina, and several people at the SAAs in Chicago who I blabbed to over beers. Sorry about that, but thanks for listening!
Literary and Academic Inspirations
In addition to the various resources I found for plot points, I wish to thank the following writers in no particular order:
Octavia Butler ("Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts"), Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Kate Wilhelm, Ursula LeGuin, Jodi Taylor, Philip Jose Farmer, Gene Wolfe, Lord Dunsany, Jane Langton, Jane Austen, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Max Shulman, L. Frank Baum, Sydney Newman, Stephen Moffat, Harold Ross, Red Smith, E.B. White, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Richard Thompson, Alexander McCall Smith, Hilary B. Price, Laurie R. King, Jennifer Pournelle, Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Kenneth Weiss, Suzette Haden Elgin, Alison Wylie, Alice Kehoe, C.J. Cherryh, Bob Hall, Ruth Rendell... more to come as I think about it.