Acknowledgements

Eugh. This passage was hard to write, so I apologize if I haven’t done it well!

For starters, I will say a big thank you to my editing and publishing team, Hilary, Josh, Jason—you did an amazing job, and the book has improved a lot thanks to your feedback! Thank you to all the beta readers who took the time to read and give me constructive comments on the book—Narissa, Kristy, Jennifer, Marie, and Jamie—and an extra thanks to Daniel, who continued to work with me after the review and has even offered to translate the book into Portuguese! Also, thanks to Alex for reviewing the advance reader copy of the book and finding all those hidden typos. You truly are a grammar nut!

Another thank you to David N. for inspiring me to want to write the book in the first place, and all the people who have encouraged me along the way. Thank you to Josh of J. P. Mitchell Photography for the fantastic photographs that were used for the author photo and to create the cover, and to the cover designer, Paulo of Maple Estudio. I should throw in a thank you to Mats Gfx for all the work he put into an alternative cover design, which, unfortunately, I did not use in the end. And finally, a big thank you to my ex-husband—“Robert” in this book—who was very proactive about encouraging me to write and who afforded me a lot of free time to work on the book.

You know I’m an Aspie and feel awkward writing the happy, fluffy prose, so please go ahead and just imagine all the additional things I should have written here!

Michelle