Acknowledgments

A heartfelt thanks to the many people who have helped me with this book. Where it shines, it is due to their diligence and help. Where it fails, it is because of my own stubborn bull-headedness. I especially want to thank my wife who read and re-read the story in different drafts and corrected my spelling, grammar, and treatment of women. A second valuable aide was Jason Black, the book doctor, who read the first draft and told me exactly what was wrong, then read it again in time for me to enter it in competition. Should you ever need an editor or book doctor, visit http://www.plottopunctuation.com.

I owe a special thank you to book arts instructor Dan Shafer of Cornish College of the Arts and a member of the Seattle Center for Book Arts for helping with the setup and printing of the original cover art for this book.

Getting input from people who just like to read this kind of book was extremely valuable, and I’d like to thank Jason, Michele, Janet, Nancy, Cary, Steve, Richard, and all those who were pressed into listening to a paragraph or two (or a chapter) to help me get through a difficult spot. Thank you to Gayle Lynds for offering encouragement and taking both my writing and publishing ventures seriously.

There is a lot of information available about Johannes Gutenberg and some of it is apparently accurate. Ferreting out what part is history and what part is legend is beyond my simple endeavors. I took most of my factual information from The Catholic Encyclopedia at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm as it seemed the most reliable and seemed often to be the source quoted by other sites.