I’d like to thank my consultant, Christopher Ciresi, for his guidance, good advice, and for being a wealth of information. I’d also like to thank Zahra Badakhshan, whose hands appear many times in this book. There are a daunting number of people who have taken the book from manuscript form into its final form. I’d like to thank Lorena Jones for first acquiring the book and then, of course, my editor Clancy Drake, who has spent months laboring tirelessly over the manuscript and galleys getting them in shape. Much appreciation goes to Leslie Evans, my copy editor, for her amazing attention to detail, as well as to proofreader Linda Bouchard and indexer Ken Della Penta. Needless to say, this book was enormously complex to design, a design accomplished so beautifully by Nancy Austin and Katy Brown, with assistance from Chloe Rawlins and Colleen Cain. Thanks also go to Hal Hershey for production management and to Sara Golski for her help with corrections and just about anything editorial. I’d also like to thank publicity director Debra Matsumoto and my publicist, Kristin Casemore.
