Special Thanks

DEDICATION

To Wade DuChene, Jonathan Bourne, Mark Winner, Phil Weinstock, Eric Manuel, and Andrew Borakove. No person has closer intragender friendships outside of a women's prison movie, and I dedicate 16.66 percent of the book to each of you in alphabetical order. The remaining 0.04 percent is dedicated to world peace.. -- Rogers

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To the folks at Sams -- especially Mark Taber, Scott Meyers, Eric Wolf, and Drew Cupp. No author can produce a book like this on his own, regardless of what my agent told Sams during contract negotiations. Their excellent visions and revisions will give me plenty to take credit for later on.

To my he-agent and she-agent team, David and Sherry Rogelberg, who helped me hide from all the people in the preceding paragraph during a critical two-day period in which I needed to catch up on my soaps.

To my wife, M.C., and my son, Max. Although our family has not fulfilled my dream of becoming a high-wire trapeze team like the Flying Wallendas, I'm the world's proudest husband in a non-acrobatic family.

READER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd also like to thank readers who have sent helpful comments about corrections, typos, and suggested improvements to the book. The list includes Brian Converse, Kevin Foad, Adam Grigsby, Mark Hardy, Russel Loski, Jim Yates and many others who shall remain nameless, because many people helped me improve the book before I started this list.