An odd dedication

[petrea_mitchell]

I've just read Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell. Decent book, but with one of the more amusing dedications I've ever come across:

To our families, decent people who through no fault of their own have to live in the same house as writers

I dunno, any spouses involved presumably made a deliberate choice about it? Unless there's something else I didn't know about writers?