Credits
By Stephen Herron
This is the part of the movie where the lights go up and you start to file out of the theatre.
I hope you are the type who sits and watches the names roll up the screen. I know that I am.
The story has finally ended. At least, this one has.
Many remain to be told.
I started writing this story late in 1995, and now, three years later, I'm happy with the finished work, apart from some bits here and there which I may fix later.
The Belfast Child could not have been written without the help and inspiration given by others.
I would like to thank the following.
Boon, Rick, John, and Joanne for being the original inhabitants of Belfast by Night, the source of all the WoD adventures in my city.
Jim Gaynor, for being the first place to give the stories a home.
Ian Lemke, Nicky Rea and Jackie Cassada along with White Wolf, for making my own Dreams come true.
Jane Lambert, for taking on the stories, and giving them their new and final home.
Helen, Paul, Cathy, Mouse, Barry, and even Gary for playing the Rebels and their allies so well.
I'd like to thank Zahida, for once being my Autumn and the inspiration for my favourite part of the tale.
I'd also like to thank Stephanie for reminding me how fragile Dreams can be, and Helen P. for showing me how Friendship is eternal.
Book Two and Three would never have been written without the support of my friends at Firnost, but you know who you are, and if I mention Jimmy, Sav, Naoise, Thea and of course Gale, I'd be just scratching the surface… If you hadn't have been there, I'd not have bothered finishing the stories !
At least that's what I think. Stories, as the Shanachie might say, have a way of writing themselves, and they sometimes just use the writer in order to escape. That's how it felt sometimes.
Book One was written on a Psion Series 3a palmtop, and a handbuilt 386 PC.
Books Two and Three were written on a Psion Series 5 palmtop and a handbuilt Pentium PC.
Music was listened to on a variety of formats, including MP3, CD, Tape and on one occasion, vinyl. A lot of albums have come and gone in that time... I'd like to thank Simple Minds for the theme tune of the novel, and Enya and Mike Oldfield for the soundtrack and incidental music. The Corrs provided some of the love themes, and Horslips filled in some of the gaps quite nicely.
I found this in the editorial of the News Letter, on October 9th 1998, the day I finished writing the Belfast Child.
"If Glasgow can be the City of Culture, and Leeds the City of Light, then surely Belfast can become the City of Dreams."
The Belfast Child is dedicated to the Children of Belfast, past, present and future.
Thank you all.
Stephen J. Herron