Acknowledgments
The major acknowledgment, of course, is to Eric Flint for writing 1632, which spawned this fictional universe, and for inviting me to be a part of it.
I gathered suggestions from participants in the 1632 Tech forum on Baen’s Bar in regard to choreographing the hand-to-hand combat scene. Thanks go to those who responded for even the suggestions I could not use and specifically to Thomas Scott for adopted suggestions regarding chain mail underwear and triangular stilettos.
I am grateful to all the historians and researchers who spend time in early modern European archives and publish their results.
Many thanks to Walt Boyes, the editor in chief of the Ring of Fire Press, for struggling with my manuscripts, and to Gorg Huff for turning them into something that is e-book friendly.