The Warlock's Curse (58 page)

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Karen G. Berry • Cie McCullough Buschle • Vivian Caethe • Nicolas Cagnard alias Neogandalf • Robin Catesby • Simone Cooper • Christian Decomain • Kate DeWitt • Sandi Gray • Helenmarie Hobson • John Idlor • Sally Qwill Janin • Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart • Rachel Koroloff • B.A. Lawhead • Deb Layne • William Long • T. L. Morganfield • Sara A. Mueller • Sandra M. Odell • Mary Christine Reese • Rhel ná DecVandé • Gene Scott • Carrie Seidman • Michael Shumate • Dave Thompson • Kevin Ward • Erica Warren • Bruce Williams

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Shannon Moss • MeiLin Miranda • Katherine Nyborg

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Amanda A. Allen • Emma Bartholomew • Emma Bengtsson • Heidi Berthiaume • Jamaila Brinkley • Serge Broom • Lexie C. • Erin Cashier and Paul Goodman • Venetia Charles • Connie Chinn • Patrick Clare • Brenda Cooper • Barb Florence Wilson Fowlie • Curtis Frye • Anne Lesley Groell • Gwennah • Hammer and Nails • Elizabeth Hillmann • Ann Leckie • David D. Levine • Shira Lipkin • Elise Matthesen • Mahesh Raj Mohan • Eugene Myers • Derek Reynolds • SAMK • Rebecca Stefoff • Rachel and Michael Swirsky • Melinda A. Smith • Dawn Vogel • Tinatsu Wallace • Carmen Williams

Creative Team

Cover Artist: Lee Moyer • Development Editor: Juliet Ulman • Copyeditor: Amy Garvey • Literary Agent: Ginger Clark • Digital Publishing Strategist: Steve Kasdin • Publicist: Jaym Gates

Special Thanks To

Mary C. Reece and Igor Spectre for letting me use their beautiful music in my Kickstarter video • MeiLin Miranda, Tim Pratt and Douglas Lain for letting me pick their brains about Kickstarters and indie publishing • Kelly Robson & A.M. Dellamonica for their chronic awesomeness • A.S. Kline, Sonya Taafe & Liz Bourke for their help with Euripedes • Peter Honigstock at Powell’s Books for his ongoing support and commitment to the F&SF genre • And last but not least, for being as forgiving as it is fascinating—American history.

About the Author

M.K. Hobson’s debut novel,
The Native Star
, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 2010. She lives in the first city in the United States incorporated west of the Rockies. Her favorite authors are Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Booth Tarkington, Gore Vidal, and William S. Burroughs.
The Warlock’s Curse
is her third novel.

www.demimonde.com

A Note on the Type

The text of this book is set in Linux Libertine (a proportional serif typeface inspired by 19th century book type) and Linux Biolinum (an organo-grotesque non-linear sans-serif typeface.) Created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project, these are free and open alternatives to proprietary typefaces. For more information, please visit
www.linuxlibertine.org

The display face used is Birch, an Adobe Originals typeface designed in 1990 by Kim Buker Chansler. Based on a Latin Condensed wood type found in a 1879 William Page specimen book, Birch is a particularly legible condensed display typeface notable for its angled serifs.