We owe huge thanks to all of our contributors and fans, and to their fascinating felines. We loved your stories about your cats and how they enrich your lives. We could only publish a small percentage of the stories that were submitted, but we read every single one and even the ones that do not appear in the book had an influence on what went into the final manuscript.
We owe special thanks to Jennifer Quasha, who read the thousands of stories submitted for this book and helped us narrow them down to a few hundred finalists. Susan Heim did a masterful job editing the first manuscript.
Associate Publisher D’ette Corona continued to be Amy’s right-hand woman in creating the final manuscript and working with all our wonderful writers. Barbara LoMonaco and Kristiana Pastir, along with Elaine Kimbler, jumped in at the end to proof, proof, proof. And yes, there will always be typos anyway, so feel free to let us know about them at webmaster@chickensoupforthesoul.com and we will correct them in future printings.
The whole publishing team deserves a hand, including Maureen Peltier, Victor Cataldo, Mary Fisher, Ronelle Frankel and Daniel Zaccari, who turned our manuscript into this beautiful book.
