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My acknowledgments would be as long as this book if I thanked each person individually for my success. And even then I am sure I’d overlook somebody. The last time everybody except my ex-husband wanted to know why I didn’t thank them for something. My mechanic pouted for days.

So to make everybody happy this time (I hope) I’d like to thank all of the following for helping me make it to the New York Times bestseller list: My relatives, friends, former co-workers, ex-boyfriends, former bosses, former teachers, neighbors, my dry cleaner, my paperboy, my cellmate during my “visit” to juvenile hall a gazzillion years ago, my former classmates, my eye doctor, my gynecologist, my bartender, my mailman, my pharmacist, the waitresses at Nellie’s Soul Food restaurant in Oakland, my writer/sister Debra Phillips, and especially my mechanic.

To Andrew Stuart: You are a super literary agent! Without you I’d probably still be collecting rejection slips.

To Karen Thomas: Thank you for editing my previous books so well. You turned my ugly ducklings into swans.

To EVERYONE at Kensington Books: You all continue to make me feel special and appreciated. In some ways you feel more like family to me than my real family. (I know that a lot of my relatives are going to chastise me for saying this, but it is true.)

To L. Peggy Hicks at Tri-Com and all the wonderful folks who work with you: Thank you for arranging my fun-filled book tours, interviews and public appearances. I hope I don’t sound greedy, but a few days in Hawaii on the next tour would be nice (hint, hint …).

To the book clubs and bookstores: Your support is sincerely appreciated. On last year’s tour my flight from Houston to Dallas was several hours late, making me miss my reading/signing at Black Images Book Bazaar—or so I thought. When my driver took me to the bookstore anyway to sign stock, I was surprised and pleased beyond belief to see that the audience had waited all that time for me anyway. Support like that is priceless.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention some of my local bookstore supporters. Blanche Richardson at MarcusBooks in Oakland is one of the most important people in the business, and if you are lucky enough to have her in your corner, you are truly blessed! Jerry Thompson at Cody’s Books in Berkeley is and has always been a very special person in my life. Bernard Henderson at Alexander Books in San Francisco is such a rich and colorful character, I’d like to be the one to write his biography.

Please visit my Web site at www.Marymonroe.org and sign my guestbook and/or send me a personal e-mail at Authorauthor5409@aol.com.

Peace and blessings,

Mary Monroe