Acknowledgments

 

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou

 

No book comes together without the help and support of so many. Thank you to my family and friends for all your encouragement. Thank you to my talented author friends, Krista Davis and Hannah Dennison, for your words of wisdom. Thank you to my Plothatcher pals: Krista Davis, Janet (Ginger Bolton), Kaye George, Marilyn Levinson (Allison Brook), Peg Cochran, and Janet Koch (Laura Alden). It’s hard to keep all your aliases straight, but you are a wonderful pool of talent and a terrific wealth of ideas, jokes, stories, and fun! I adore you. Thanks to my blog mates on Mystery Lovers Kitchen: Cleo Coyle, Krista Davis, Leslie Budewitz, Roberta Isleib (Lucy Burdette), Peg Cochran, Linda Wiken (Erika Chase), Denise Swanson, and Sheila Connolly. I love your passion for food as well as for books.

Thank you to my online groups, Cake and Daggers as well as Delicious Mysteries. You keep me on my toes. I love how willing you are to read ARCs, post reviews, and help me promote whenever possible. Authors need fans like you.

Thanks to those who have helped make this seventh book in the Cookbook Nook Mystery series come to fruition: my publisher, Bill Harris, at Beyond the Page; my agent, John Talbot; and my biggest supporter, Kimberley Greene. Without you all, I’d go haywire.

Last but not least, thank you librarians, teachers, and readers for sharing the delicious world of a cookbook nook owner in a fictional coastal town in California with your friends. I hope you enjoy this story.