Acknowledgements
You wouldn’t be turning the pages of this book, or swiping through
it on your iPad, if it weren’t for the hard work and great skill of the
following people:
Peachpit Press and Publisher Nancy Ruenzel, who trust me to write
their books; Nikki McDonald, who pulled me, willingly, back into book
writing; Cliff Colby, who had the right project for me at the right time;
Rebecca Gulick, who herded my catlike self into getting it done;
production coordinator David Van Ness, who pulled it from the mess
I left it into this fine book with astonishing aplomb; patient copy editor
Liz Welch, who cleaned up thousands of typos, scads of structural snafus,
and much grammatical gibberish; Francisco Design, which made words
and pictures into lovely pages; Patricia J. Pane, who proofread and
saved me much embarrassment; and Valerie Haynes Perry, who skillfully
created this book’s invaluable index.