If there were no Star Trek...

[Greg Cox]

Funny story: I once made the mistake of thanking my parents in the Acknowledgments for letting me borrow their computer. (I had visited them one summer while under a tight deadline.) Imagine my reaction when a snarky reviewer seized on this line as "proof" that I was, in fact, a basement-dwelling nerd who still lived with my parents!

I was stunned. Who knew people even read the Acknowledgments?

I read them.

Besides, how do people know what room you were in when you borrowed the computer? For all they know, it could have been in the ball room, or the dining room, or the library...

I confess: I wrote that particular novella in the library with Colonel Mustard . . ..

 

[Nerys Myk]

Funny story: I once made the mistake of thanking my parents in the Acknowledgments for letting me borrow their computer. (I had visited them one summer while under a tight deadline.) Imagine my reaction when a snarky reviewer seized on this line as "proof" that I was, in fact, a basement-dwelling nerd who still lived with my parents!

I was stunned. Who knew people even read the Acknowledgments?

I read them.

Besides, how do people know what room you were in when you borrowed the computer? For all they know, it could have been in the ball room, or the dining room, or the library...

I confess: I wrote that particular novella in the library with Colonel Mustard . . ..

Mustard still wants his cut.

 

[Greg Cox]

I read them.

Besides, how do people know what room you were in when you borrowed the computer? For all they know, it could have been in the ball room, or the dining room, or the library...

I confess: I wrote that particular novella in the library with Colonel Mustard . . ..

Mustard still wants his cut.

Only because I forgot to mention him in the Acknowledgments!