[b] The book was translated into French by Mélanie Fazi and published as Mémoires d'un maître faussaire in France in February 2009.

[2] Memoirs of a Master Forger won the 2009 August Derleth Award for Best Novel, selected by members of the British Fantasy Society.

[3] Joyce's 2007 short story, "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen", which won the 2009 O. Henry Award Juror Favorites,[4] was incorporated into Memoirs of a Master Forger.

[5] William Heaney works at a British social welfare agency, and, in his spare time, forges 19th-century first edition books.

[6] But Joyce revealed on his website that he is the author of the book, and the British Fantasy Award trophy he received for it bears his real name.

[5]Reviewing Memoirs of a Master Forger in Strange Horizons, Michael Levy called Joyce "one of our very best practitioners of dark fantasy".

[1] Tammy Moore wrote at the SF Site that Memoirs of a Master Forger is not traditional fantasy or horror.

[8] In a review of the American edition of the book in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, writer and critic, Charles de Lint called How to Make Friends with Demons "pure genius".

"[10] While the magazine was a little critical of the "tacked-on political pontification", it described the book as "a profound meditation upon the evils of cruelty, self-absorption, cowardice and inaction.