Acknowledgments
We’d like to thank our publisher at Manning Publications, Marjan Bace, as well as our editor, Lianna Wlasiuk, for helping us understand in very specific ways how to improve our first drafts of the manuscript. Thanks to Lianna’s detailed feedback and patience, the book you see is in much better shape than it would otherwise have been. We’d also like to thank Cynthia Kane, who helped us to finish the book, by providing valuable input in the last stages of development. There were numerous other editors who worked with us along the way. We thank each and every one of them!
The rest of the staff at Manning is also to be thanked for their hard work and professionalism. That includes review editor Karen Tegtmeyer, design editor Dottie Marsico, copyeditor Benjamin Berg, proofreader Elizabeth Martin, typesetter Denis Dalinnik, project editor Mary Piergies, cover designer Leslie Haimes, and webmaster Gabriel Dobrescu. We also thank Ron Tomich for his help in promoting the book and getting the word out into the community.