Confessions of a Public Speaker

Appendix H. Acknowledgments

Special note: I owe the life that led to this book to people who buy my books, recommend my writings to others, leave comments on my blog, and help me get hired to speak at various places around the world. I’d be an idiot for not thanking you here. Thank you. You’ve changed my life and helped me chase my dreams, and I hope this book, or the next one, repays that debt. Your mere mentions of my work to others in person, on blogs, or wherever you do it makes my life possible. Please, pretty please, continue.

While my name goes on the cover, all books are made by a gang of people who do various bits of work you never notice. Mary Treseler, my editor and friend, who greenlights these crazy ideas I have for books and wisely guides their way, simply rocks. O’Reilly Media needs to clone this woman. My friend, Marlowe Shaeffer, who has worked, mostly voluntarily (fireams were involved only twice, fired once), on all my books at O’Reilly. Also a candidate for cloning. Rob Romano rocked with the illustrations, Angela Howard crushed the index, Ron Bilodeau made the insides all nice and cool, Monica Kamsvaag made the unmistakable cover, and production editor Rachel Monaghan shepherded all these diverse talents together to create a single bound object worthy of your hard-earned cash. And thanks to Christine Walker, Sara Peyton, and all my friends at O’Reilly Media for helping promote this thing.

To the Donner party (Terrel Lefferts, Rob Lefferts, Kaelyn Lefferts, Oliver ...