I’m grateful to my family and friends for their love, support, and confidence in me. Thanks also to everyone who has trusted me to help them with the writing process, whether by reading my articles and books, by participating in a workshop or webinar, or through correspondence with me. You are the reason I wrote this book.
Special thanks for wisdom-sharing, either recently or in the distant past, to Angela Brown, Gay Knutson, Philip Lenkowsky, Jennifer Slimko, and the Sarasota chapter of the Florida Writers Association.
I’m indebted to my agent, Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency; my editors, James Duncan, Roseann Biederman, and Kimberly Catanzarite, as well as publisher Phil Sexton and all the staff at Writer’s Digest Books. To my editors at Writer’s Digest magazine, Jessica Strawser and Zachary Petit, and all the staff at Writer’s Digest Books, thank you for being so great to work with! Thanks also to the entire staff at the magazine and F+W Media: You guys rock.
Above all, thank you to Marcia, for everything.