In the lap of a hero of mine, Central Park, New York, 1965.

Early office (below) and current aerie (right)

Kevin Kline and director on a break during the recording of the Merlin and the Dragons audiotape

Ed Young, the prize-winning illustrator with whom I have done three books, plus our astonishing editor, Anne Beneduce, ALA 1990.

Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, those fantasy editors extraordinaire, bookending me at World Fantasy Convention in Chicago, 1990

Pat Gauch, my amazingly perceptive Owl Moon editor helping me sign at the International Reading Association Convention, New Orleans, 1987.

My editor, the marvelous Maria Modugno.

Telling stories, Yellow Brick Road, San Diego, 1987.

Author Mary Frances Zambreno welcomes Jane Dyer and me to Chicago on our Midwest book tour, 1990.

Bruce Coville, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, 1993 (We started Armageddon Summer there several summers later.)

Signing Owl Moon with John Schoenherr, ALA, New Orleans, 1988.

Selling a story to Tappan King when he was editor of "The Twilight Zone" magazine, at World Fanatasy Convention in Rhode Island, 1987. And you thought it was all done through the mail.