Madeline Carter - 01 - Mad Money (41 page)

Thanks to my partner,
David Middleton. David is always my first reader and, without him,
Madeline would be a much duller girl. David has the sharpest eye
for detail and continuity imaginable and, as everyone says: David
knows everything. Also — and of course — thanks to David for
fostering the bubble of creativity that shelters and inspires us
wherever we go. And for the lattes. We’ve discovered it takes
a
lot
of caffeine
to write a book.

My son, the actor Michael Karl Richards, has
shown me some of the most salient secrets to creative success. I’ll
share the most important of these with you now: Want it with every
fiber, then give it all you got. Thank you, Mike. You inspire me.
Always.

Thanks to Madeline’s Goddess of Compliance,
Mary Beck and her consort/husband, Lang Evans, for their expert and
loving reading of the Madeline Carter novels. Mary and Lang helped
make sure that my representations of Madeline’s trading in
particular and of the stock market in general were accurate. If
there are errors in this regard, they are mine, but Mary and Lang
helped make the good stuff better.

Thank you to Madeline’s earliest readers, my
dear friends Michelé Denis, Laura-Jean Kelly and Debbie Warmerdam.
Your support was more appreciated than you know, your enthusiasm a
happy wave that carried me through the home stretch. Thanks also to
Patricia McLean, Betty Middleton, Jackie Leidl, Tami Adams, Andrew
Heard and Carolyn Withers. Where would I be without you guys?

Thanks to my brother, Dr.
Peter Huber, whose belief in me has been unshakable, always: even
at times when I’ve had my own doubts. Your support and input always
mean so much. Not to mention, of course, having inadvertently
supplied many of the locations in
Mad
Money.

For this new electronic
edition of
Mad Money
I want to add a thanks to the many readers Madeline has
touched sufficiently for them to reach out and write to me… and to
her. Your support and encouragement means more to me – to both of
us – than you can ever know.