The Icing on the Corpse (28 page)

Acknowledgments

As always, it takes a village. This time even more so.

Thank you to John Talbot of the John Talbot Agency, Inc., for believing in this series, and to my editor, John Scognamiglio, and the rest of the folks at Kensington for making sure the finished product is worthy.

Sherry Harris, my Wicked Cozy sister and first editor, gets a lot of the credit, as always, for making this book what it is today and keeping me sane during the process. She and our other Wicked Cozy blog mates—Edith Maxwell/Tace Baker, Barbara Ross, Jessie Crockett, and J. A. (Julie) Hennrikus/ Julianne Holmes—are my biggest supporters and best friends. I love you all very much.

Thanks to Jim Chianese of the CT Paranormal Research Team and Chris D'Addio, who both lent me their expertise on ghost hunting and all things paranormal. I had a lot of fun with this topic.

Vanessa Sealey at The Big Biscuit, your recipes are to die for. Thanks for helping me provide high-quality treats for dogs everywhere!

Special thanks to Keith Golembiewski, my genealogy expert, for educating me on this process and all the cool ways you can find family members these days and trace history. Fascinating!

I was honored to use the name Dede Richardson in this book in honor of the real Dianne “Dede” Richardson. Thank you to Myron “Mikie” Richardson, her husband, who bid on naming rights for a character at an auction for animals and asked me to use his wife's name. Dede and their cats, Mittens and Diamond, are all named in this story.

And my rescue organizations of note: The Greater New Haven Cat Project, Inc. in New Haven, Connecticut, for your amazing work with feral cats; Angel Capone Pitbull Rescue in New York for getting the word out about how great this breed really is; the East Coast Maine Coon Rescue in New Jersey for saving coon cats like Nutty every day; and the Woodstock (NY) Farm Animal Sanctuary, which does amazing things for abused, neglected, and abandoned farm animals. Thank you to each of these organizations and all their dedicated volunteers and staff for being animal advocates. The world needs more of you!

Doug and Cynthia Fleck, my biggest thanks as always for your support, love and unconditional acceptance of my writerly quirks. Love you guys. And Kim Fleck, you know I could never do any of this without you. Thanks for being my biggest champion and the best social media expert around! Love you to the moon and back!

And to the readers, booksellers, and librarians, without whom there would be no authors. Thank you all.

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