Acknowledgments

THANKS TO LORI PERKINS: every word of encouragement from you seems to turn into a book, including this one! To Marsha Philitas for excellent advice. To Shariann Lewitt for cheerleading, encouragement, and being a role model for me. To corwin for much inspiration as well as cooking so many fabulous dinners while I was writing this. To my LiveJournal friends for everything, and especially my first readers Patrick, dba, Marion, Lisa, Jean Roberta, and Eric. Thanks also to Bethany and Cynthia, my assistants at Circlet Press while this book was being written, without whose efforts I never would have had the mental capacity (or time) to actually finish the book.