I’m always tempted to simply list everyone I know in acknowledgments, because I am blessed with so many wonderful friends, neighbors, and colleagues in every part of my life. I will limit myself, however, to just a few, with no implication that others are not also worthy of thanks for their help and support, witting and unwitting.
I wish to thank Richard, for his encouragement and patience with my writerly quirks.
Thanks also to my friends Chris, Ryan, Peter, and Eric, all of whom have shaped my thoughts through discussion, debate, and the best kind of academic argument. Thanks to Chris again, for reading an early draft of this book and offering his usual helpful feedback.
Thanks also to the Aeclectic Tarot forums, where the community of Lenormand readers are more than willing to share their techniques and ideas.
I also thank the Kindred Spirits Intuitive Arts Center in Oswego, IL, for hosting me on several occasions as a guest and showing interest in my work.
Mary K. Greer offered honest, helpful, and knowledgeable criticism of an earlier version of this book, and for that and the improvement it made to the book, I’m very grateful.
Elysia Gallo, my editor at Llewellyn, has been a great help. Editors do a lot more than mark apostrophe errors. Without good editors, books would never see the light of day, and Llewellyn has some of the best editors in publishing. I am grateful for her assistance, her spot-on suggestions, and her patience with those same aforementioned writerly quirks.
If I’ve missed anyone, I hope they will not take it as a sign of ingratitude, instead of the honest mistake that it is. And, of course, there are helpers invisible to sensate eyes whom I also must thank, but I’ll refrain from listing their names here.