My heartfelt thanks go out to Cheryl Anderson, Nancy Lundblad, and Robin McDuff for their insightful comments and suggestions as readers. Thanks also to Shirley Tessler for her assistance editing the recipes. I am also grateful to Alicia Rasley for her terrific Intensive Pacing class and to everyone involved in Sisters in Crime and the Guppies, the most generous community of writers I could possibly imagine.
And huge thanks, as always, to Erin Niumata at Folio Literary Management and to Matt Martz, Nike Power, Sarah Poppe, and all the other wonderful folks at Crooked Lane Books.