Dragons of the Hourglass Mage

AFTERWORD

Dragons of Autumn Twilight , first published in 1984, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2009. Since then, the Dragonlance Chronicles have been continuously in print. They have sold more than thirty million copies worldwide and been translated into almost every language.

We have become friends with so many people around the world, people of all races, creeds, and nationalities, who have been brought together through a love of reading. We would like to thank the many fans worldwide for their help and support and encouragement. We want to give special thanks to the group on the Internet message boards of the Dragonlance Nexus, who have rallied around to provide background research and information.

Perhaps our proudest moment was to be involved with the production of the animated film Dragons of Autumn Twilight . We would like to thank the people who worked on the movie, which has been released on DVD from Paramount Pictures: producers Arthur Cohen and Steve Stabler, director Will Meugniot, writer George Strayton, coexecutive producers Cindi Rice and John Frank Rosenblum, and composer Karl Preusser who wrote the fabulous original musical score. All the actors did a wonderful job, but we would especially like to thank Jason Marsden, who did the voice of Tasslehoff and who was so kind to give his time and talent to the fans and to us.

Our thoughts go to our friends and members of the very first Dragonlance team: Jeff Grubb, Michael Williams, Doug Niles, and Harold Johnson; our first editor, who took a huge chance on us, Jean Blashfield Black; the amazing art staff of TSR, Inc.—Larry Elmore, Jeff Easely, Clyde Caldwell, Keith Parkinson; our former publisher, Mary Kirchoff; and our former executive editors, Peter Archer and Brian Thomsen. Finally, we would like to give special thanks and heartfelt gratitude to our friend and editor for all these many years, Pat McGilligan.

And to all of you who have read and loved these books. May dragons fly ever in your dreams.