Acknowledgments

We’d like to give special thanks to all of the Really Important People who made this book a reality: our families—Beki Petras, Sylvia Lovegren Petras and Alex Petras, and Mitch Callanan; our ever-enthusiastic agent, Andrea Somberg; and Workman’s writers’ Dream Team: Bruce Tracy—as always, “the bestest” of editors—Suzie Bolotin, Bob Miller, Jean-Marc Troadec, Raquel Jaramillo, Justin Krasner, Carol White, and, of course, Peter Workman, for proving that an independent publisher can be such a vital and creative force.