Acknowledgments

Many, many thanks to Mark Taub for pulling this book together and being such a pleasure to work with.

Thanks to my agent, Laura Lewin of StudioB, without whom this book would not exist.

Thanks to the technical reviewers for taking the time to provide such excellent feedback, including Sylvain Gibassier, Mark Ferkingstad, and Lance Young. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

On a personal note, thanks to friends and family for their support. In particular, that includes adoor, alzo, dionysusdevotee, gaaneden, grandmoffdavid, hansandersen, jephly, jrpseudonym, merovingian, musae, p_fish, phoebek, preciousjade, rogerothornhill, sajin, and zunger. And finally, thanks to Cynthia, Diane, and Mom. You are, quite simply, the best.