Acknowledgments 239 and personalities that will help restimulate our economy and get it rocking again. Mitch Sisskind is my friend and faithful editor and collator par excellence. As a writer himself, Mitch loved this project from the beginning. He took over thirty 昀椀les of transcribed live audio recordings of everything I had to say about writing over the last twenty years and helped me assemble it into a lucid and hopefully irresistible package. We hope and expect this will motivate you to get your book written, published, and selling ever more briskly. Richard Smoley, from G&D Media, has done a mirac- ulous job of helping me bring this book completely and comprehensively up to date. Crystal Dwyer, my sweetheart wife and life partner who generously read, commented on, and thought out loud with me to improve every concept and line in the book—thank you! To all those who have helped me and whom I neglected to personally or professionally thank and appreciate, I am blessed that you served and aided me in so many ways. Forgive me for not personally naming you and know that I love, thank, and deeply appreciate you. Allow me again to thank you, the reader, who make it possible for writers to write and earn a life and a great livelihood. I love reading, writing, marketing, selling and that goes into this great process.