As always, my husband and my partner in everything, Deck, who believed in this book from the moment I first strung together a semi–coherent sentence about a nebulous idea. And then, when it became a reality, I have to call the production and publication team at Book View Café: Beta reader: Jen Stevenson Formatter: Leah Cutter Cover Design: Alma Alexander, Lisa M. Morgan and Dave Smeds A little further back than that… this was a book born in a period of pain, because a lot of it was written during the last few months of my father’s life. It was a sanctuary for me, this world, somewhere I could escape to and permit myself to remember that I could laugh – and because of that some of the laughter is deep. But before that… my thanks to that world, and to all the people in it, my people, my tribe. The writers, The artists. The ones who can quote you dialogue from long–lost episodes of movies and TV shows which haven’t been on the air for DECADES. The ones who will read this book and catch all the pieces of homage, the context, the background – those who will, like the audience at an early screening of “Galaxy Quest”
