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Acknowledgments

HAVE yet to publish my novel—haven’t signed a contract or even received an offer of representation from an agent—but I already have a good start on my acknowledgments page. It’s something I think every aspiring writer should do.

Someday my novel will no longer be a mere Word document living on my computer and in the cloud. It will be printed and bound, available in bookstores. An e-book will be available in those places people go to download e-books. Maybe there will be an audiobook. In preparation for that day, in belief that day will come, I’ve begun drafting the book’s acknowledgments.

A m I ? I wouldn’t call it that, but then again I have only the most surface understanding of the concept: I picture vision boards, mantras, maybe a crystal. People trying to wish,

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