The Bone Key (28 page)

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BOUT THE
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UTHORS

Sarah Monette
grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project, and now lives in a 105-year-old house in the Upper Midwest with a great many books, two cats, and one husband. Her Ph.D. diploma (English Literature, 2004) hangs in the kitchen. Her first four novels were published by Ace Books. Her short stories have appeared in
Strange Horizons
,
Weird Tales
, and
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
, among other venues, and have been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. Short story collection,
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
, was published by Prime Books in fall 2011. Sarah has written two novels (
A Companion to Wolves
, Tor Books, 2007;
The Tempering of Men
, Tor Books, 2011) and three short stories with Elizabeth Bear, and hopes to write more. Her next novel,
The Goblin Emperor
, will come out from Tor under the name Katherine Addison. Visit her online at www.sarahmonette.com.

Lynne M. Thomas
(aka Dr. L. Marie Howard) is the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where she is responsible for popular culture special collections that include the literary papers of over fifty SF/F authors (including Sarah Monette). Lynn will also be the editor of
Apex Magazine
as of late 2011. She is the co-author of
Special Collections 2.0
, a book about web 2.0 technologies and special collections in libraries with Beth Whittaker (Libraries Unlimited, 2009), as well as academic articles about cross-dressing in dime novels and using libraries to survive the zombie apocalypse. She is perhaps best known as the co-editor of the Hugo-nominated
Chicks Dig Time Lords
(2010) with Tara O’Shea, and
Whedonistas
(2011) with Deborah Stanish, essay collections celebrating women involved in media fandoms and the production of television series, published by Mad Norwegian Press. Her next book will be
Chicks Dig Comics
, with Sigrid Ellis (2012).

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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to the editors in whose publications these stories first saw daylight, especially Barbara and Christopher Roden, and Steve Pasechnick.

Thanks also to Sonya Taaffe, without whose enthusiasm this collection would not exist. And to Sean Wallace, who listened to her.

“The Wall of Clouds” first appeared in
Alchemy
1 (December 2003).

“Bringing Helena Back” first appeared in
All Hallows
35 (February 2004).

“The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox” first appeared in
Lovecraft’s Weird Mysteries
7 (May 2004).

“The Green Glass Paperweight” first appeared in
Tales of the Unanticipated
25 (August 2004).

“The Venebretti Necklace” first appeared in
Alchemy
2 (September 2004).

“Wait for Me” first appeared in an online magazine,
Naked Snake Online
(September 2004), and then on www.sarahmonette.com.

“Elegy for a Demon Lover” first appeared in
Tales of the Unanticipated
26 (October 2005), and was reprinted in
The Best of the Rest 4
(2006).

“Drowning Palmer” first appeared in
All Hallows
41 (February 2006) and was reprinted in
The Year’s Best Fantasy
and
Horror, 20th Annual Collection
(2007).

“The Bone Key” first appeared in
Say . . . What’s the Combination?
(May 2007).

“Listening to Bone” appeared for the first time in this collection.

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