About the Author
Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning author and game designer whose first novel was published in 1988. He grew up in Vermont, and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1979 with a degree in history. He now lives in Arizona (though he is writing this on a day when it’s 109 degrees in the shade, so he wonders why he’s living in Arizona).
You can find his website at www.stormwolf.com, where, among other things, you can find a glossary of terms and a pronunciation guide for all the made-up words that no human mouth was ever meant to fit around anyway.