ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Big thank yous go around the world to all the authors who gave so generously of their time and talents; my agent, Jud Laghi (who “knows how we roll”); editor and fellow midwesterner Megan Hustad for her faith, tenacity, and level head; Iris Richmond, Holly Bemiss, and everyone at Basic Books, who were a dream to work for and with; everyone at the Litquake Literary Festival, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto, and in the Bay Area literary community at large, who make our city the best place in the world to be a book lover; all our friends and supporters online, from Central Booking to South by Southwest to Readerville, who recognize that the future is now and want to be a part of it; Rhodes Fishburne, Nan Talese, Pamela Ribon, Oscar Vilallon, Roman Mars, Nicole Sawaya, Nicolson Baker, Kevin Ferguson, Wendy Sheanin, Tamara Strauss, Sean McDonald, Teresa LeYung Ryan, Edward Nawotka, Lissa Warren, and MJ Rose, who were there from the beginning; my friends and family who said I could do it; and Suzan Foley, who knew all along.
Kevin