To Athena Marie Scalzi, my daughter, who is a week shy of three months old as I write this. Because I love her more than anything, too. She's my first child, this is my first novel. You can see the link there.

Not too much to say here, but I'll say it anyway.

Technical: The website was designed (if you want to call it that) on Netscape's Composer software; logically enough, it looks best on Netscape. It's also been produced on a PC and not a Mac — this may make a difference in terms of what fonts you see. My monitor is set at 600 x 800; this site probably looks best at that resolution. If you are using IE on a Mac with 480 x 640 resolution, I don't know that there's much I can do other than give you my sympathy. I'm sure it looks fine. Really.

The background image stretches 1000 pixels; after that, you'll get the planet again. If you're working on some amazing monitor that allows you that sort of width, you might want to adjust your browser (I can't imagine reading laterally across 1000 pixels is much fun, anyway).

If you're planning to download the novel, it's a pretty bare-bones process: I've included a link which goes directly to the file. Your browser will either download it directly, or ask you if you want it opened first (I'd just download it, personally). The file is an ".rtf" file, which means that you should be able to open it, with all the formatting, on your favorite word processor without problems, regardless of your computer platform (unless your using either an ancient computer or word processor). The file is virus free, of course, although if you receive the file from somewhere other than this Web site, I obviously can't say that that particular copy will be virus-free. I can't be everywhere, alas.

The .rtf file will be double spaced and largely in 12-point fonts. Do with it what you will to make it more readable for you, or more printer friendly. Really, I don't mind.