Writing is not a lonely business. I’m grateful for the love, support, and good works of: Dr. Tom Sholseth and Jan Sholseth, Liz Szabla, Charles Flowers, my editor Pat Mulcahy, Denell Downum, Rick Moody, Suzanne Jackson, James Linville, Adrienne Miller, Garry and Natalie Wills, Margaret Dawe, Christopher Barden, Tom and Libya Clancy, Thomas Mallon, Breon Dunigan and Bob Bailey, Tom Feigelson, Nicole Gregory, Augie Hasho, Lynn Holst, Brianne Leary, Colleen Keegan, Jeffrey Hogrefe, Wendy Hull, Lori Grant, Keith Klein and Becky Brown, Faith Meade, Sarah Price and Dan Courtenay, Karen Rinaldi, Barbara Jones and Steven Rinehart, Lillian Barden and Gordon Rieger, Juan Martinez, Anastasia Simone, Eleanor Bowie, Susan Schorr, Charles Silver, Lee Smith, Kristoffer Jacobson, Peter Stitt, Peter Stine, S. Kirk Walsh, Keith Dunlap, Sally Wofford Girand, Kathryn Gravdal, the memory of Tom Vericker …
and for the love and tender mercies of my supervising angels: Mary-Beth Hughes, Alice Barden, and my agent Lydia Wills.