Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my family, who put up with me while I wrote this book. Is that a cliché? Yes. Is it a real part of being a writer, spouse, parent, and child? Yes. They’re loving and, importantly, they’re a humorous bunch of people and I’m grateful their lot was cast with mine. In particular, my husband Vladimir helped me out with a few of the illustrations. He is a much better visual artist than I am.

Paul Champion was my technical editor with this book. I’d worked with him before and trusted him to help me get things right where my street-learned skills, so to speak, gave me some misunderstandings and gaps. He proved himself, and then some.

I’m grateful to Chris Simpson, who helped steer me into getting ...

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