Fellow authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry; our managing director, Meg Walker; and podcast partner, Ron Block: Y’all, we created a community with a quarter-million members. Can you even comprehend that? Friends & Fiction has been a life-altering corner of the internet, and, if you’re a reader and you haven’t joined us, don’t wait another day! Lisa Harrison, Brenda Gardner, Annissa Armstrong, Shaun Hettinger, James Way, and Rachel Jensen: from the official book club to tech to web to everything in between, you guys are the most amazing. Thank you to our fabulous, tireless Friends & Fiction ambassadors, who show up online and in person. Amber Prater, Anne Floccari, Barbara Wojcik, Bubba Wilson (the lucky coin queen!), Clare Plaxton, Dallas Strawn, Dawne McCurry, Debby Stone (the countdown queen!), Francene Katzen, Irene Wenner, Jill Mallia, Jodena Pysher, Kathy Saccamano, Laurie Brown, Lesley Bodemann, Linda Burrell, Maria Lew, Marilyn Rumph, Marlene Waters, Mary Vasquez, Meredith D’Agostino, Michelle Marcus, Mindy Ehrlich, Molly Neville, Nicole Fincher, Rhonda Perrett, Robin Klein, Sharon Person, Lysette House (and Biscuit, dog F&Fer!), Susan Seligman, Susie Baldwin, and Taylor Lintz, you are the heart of Friends & Fiction and watching the relationships that you have made is such a gift!

Carrie Feron, how fun is it that this is our first official book together? I truly loved editing this one with you. Thanks for your great insight and your great faith in me, in the perfect amounts! Elisabeth Weed and Olivia Blaustein, I would be nowhere without your agenting expertise. What a year we have had! Jonathan Baruch, I’m so grateful for your support and guidance and all the energy you have brought to my books and career. Lauren Carr, putting aside the book and all your hard work on it and how incredible you are in every way, let’s just remember that this is the year you let me share a stage with Kelly Bishop. Best. Night. Ever. (Champagne and burgers after were pretty great too!) Kell Wilson, thanks for all your marketing prowess and hard work on all my books! Jennifer Bergstrom, can you believe this is our tenth book together? Wow! Thanks for being such an amazing publisher for all these years! Aimee Bell, Jennifer Long, Sally Marvin, and Eliza Hanson, thank you for the million things you do behind the scenes to make these books come to life. I adore you all! Ali Chesnick, it has been such a joy to work with you on this one. Here’s to many more! Gabrielle Audet and Sarah Lieberman, listening to the audio versions of my book is always like a new dream come true. I can’t possibly thank you enough!