Acknowledgments

Thanks to

My agent, Sheree Bykofsky, for perfectly placing this book.

My editors, Emily McCloskey, Elise Poston, and Mary Dalton, for helping it come into being.

My peer reviewer, Susan Beth Lehman, for her brilliant notes.

My Family: Molly Mandelberg, Nick, Sarah. Henry, Lyla and Caroline Mandelberg, Laura and Robinson Whitcomb, Wendy and the Marshes, Jon and Gladys Whitcomb and their clan, Scott Cervine and Jake Sanborn.

My friends who are always willing to read and give brilliant notes: Hilary Leach, Deb Stone, Ron Lee and my daughter Molly.

My Writing Support Group: Leona Grieve, Linda Leslie, Kristi Negri, Cherie Walter and Laura Whitcomb.

My Writing the Waves family: Gary Cornelius, Melinda and Chris Griffith, Linda Hampton, Holly Johnson, Ron Lee, Beryl and Richard O’Connor, Pamela Segger, Ruth Selid, Peggy Walton-Walker and Larry Lord, Lloyd Williams and all the others over the last ten years.

Dear friends Dr. Sat-Kaur Khalsa, Goody Cable, Carol Marmaduke, Susan Fletcher, and Pamela Smith Hill.

My theatre family: Tobias Anderson, David H. Bell, Dave Bodin, Margie Boule, Don Stewart Burns, Gavin Hoffman, Steve Knox, Jon Kretzu, Barbara Lindsay, Len and Susan Magazine, Susannah Mars, Michael Mendelson, Stephanie Mulligan, Allen Nause, Gary Norman, Steve Rathje, Karen Rathje, Damaso Rodriguez, Amanda Soden, Todd van Voris, Kay Vega and John Vickery.

My fellow critique group members over the years: Marc Acito (for the Life Force), Diana Abujaber, Chelsea Cain, Courtenay Hameister, Holly Johnson, Karen Karbo, Storm Large, Ron Lee, William Luce, Christine McKinley, Whitney Otto, and Daniel H. Wilson.

My teachers, especially the immortal Abel Franco.

All my students, you have taught me and inspired me.

And to all those artists who have written great love stories in films over the last 100 years. Without you, none of this.

Thank you thank you thank you.