My first readers include my daughter, Robin; my son, Marc; Frances Wood; Marjorie Hudson; and Karen Pullen.
My dreamy agent is Ginger Knowlton, who believes in books and readers and me.
After that? It’s so much fun to reach the stage in the publishing process where you have fellow travelers, collaborators who make the going less lonely and the final product a lot more compelling. Could anyone be luckier than to find an editor like Karen Wojtyla, who leaves this book better and bigger than she found it? Or a team like art director Michael McCartney and calligrapher Sarah Jane Coleman, who came up with a cover everyone I know wants to frame? Or a copy editor like Erica Stahler, who cares about the sound that sand crabs make? (Really.)
Thank you all. It took a village.