Medusa's Child

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High-energy fiction requires a very large, very accomplished team of professionals hand-carrying the author's words into print, and I'm privileged to have the best.

First, I'm very fortunate to have as my literary agents and dear friends the indomitable George Wieser and the indefatigable Olga Wieser (of the Wieser and Wieser Agency in New York). Quite simply, they make my books possible.

Medusa's Child took shape at home in Tacoma with the creative assistance of my wife, Bunny Nance, who also provided editorial scrutiny as the chapters moved out of my laptop (yes, I do live with a computer; and no, I don't write in the cockpit). Medusa reached literary maturity under the accomplished care of my samurai editor and business partner, Patricia Davenport (for some reason I keep buying her red pens with which to slash my copy to shreds).

Finally, in New York—in the offices of my publisher, Doubleday—Medusa's Child received the expert developmental and editorial skills of my editors Lori Lipsky and Rob Robertson, and the attention and enthusiasm of my publisher Arlene Friedman and editor-in-chief Pat Mulcahy, as well as the extraordinary efforts of our promotion guru, Jane Schorn.

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