The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum (The Magnetron Chronicles) (7 page)

The Magnetron Chronicles series was birthed and nurtured in an incubator known briefly as
“The Hogalum Society Travelling Air Show and Speculative Fiction Workshoppe,” an informal group collaboration by the author, D. L. Mackenzie, and Jeffrey Nerone, John Kalman, and Curt Dänhauser.  I am deeply indebted to all of these men, the original Hogalum Society.

Many major characters are based on character sketches by Mr. Nerone, and several situations and story elements were suggested by Mr. Nerone as well.  The Secret Journals of Phineas J. Magnetron—the web serial from which The Magnetron Chronicles series is adapted—was created, developed, and written by D. L. Mackenzie with frequent and invaluable help from Mr. Nerone, and less frequent but no less invaluable input from Messrs. Dänhauser and Kalman.  Thanks, guys.  This simply wouldn
’t have happened without you.

Special thanks to
Gabriela Holderegger Pajarola at
Lia Rumantscha
for her help with the Romansh language, and to John Kalman for help with every other language.

Thanks also to my wife Gina, a practical woman to whom my writing is unintelligible gibberish, but who nonetheless believes with all her heart that I am the finest writer the world will ever know.

And a special words-cannot-convey kind of thanks to my mom, who believed in me when I said I was going to become a writer at my advanced age and who never stopped encouraging me.  I wish you were here to read this, Mom.

Finally, I want to thank my dad, who willingly turned his comfortable life upside-down to become part of my life once again, and who not only encourages my writing but actually
reads
the stuff.