ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Although this manuscript was edited on a book tour in hotel rooms and airports across the country, I wrote the first draft in my basement, under the tightest deadline of my life—a little over three weeks. It simply couldn’t have happened without Christopher Cerasi at DC Comics and Cath Trechman at Titan Books, two terrific individuals and tireless, top-notch editors who gave me great notes and encouragement along the way. And thanks, of course, to Eric Kripke, Rebecca Dessertine and all the creative staff of Supernatural for creating a universe worth falling in love with in the first place.

I’m also grateful to my coworkers at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, particularly Senior Technologist Dana Fortney, whose creative scheduling allowed me to somehow keep my full-time status while I was doing all this.

Finally, as always, I must reserve my greatest thanks for my wife Christina and my kids. They walked the battlefields of Gettysburg with me, and far more important, they continue to tolerate my antics in the basement, way past any logical reason.