BOOK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

​It is time, as publication date approaches, to offer serious recognition and gratitude to the people who have made it all possible.  They should not be relegated to a single read on a book’s page of acknowledgements, but over and over.  They all deserve it.
First and foremost, thank you to all the incredible people from Swat, Pakistan who have shared their lives with me, either in their native home villages or in their lives as exiles.  The book is about and for you.  I can only hope you feel accurately represented.
Thank you to my supportive and loving husband, Paul, who not only kindled in me the newfound drive to write again but gave me the time and opportunity to do so.
Publishing today is about so much more than writing.  Thank you to all those who contributed technical support to the book, Talk Till The Minutes Run Out:  to the team at HigherLife, particularly Nicole who has been awesome with timely communication and keeping the ball rolling and never letting me fall behind;  Colleen, who helped me launch my online presence; and to Tom and Shea, for helping me take that presence to another level. 
There are so many levels of editing and critiquing, and each one enriches the finished product.  Thank you to Leilani for the first reading of the novel in its skeletal form, for first driving home the need to shake the social science model if I wanted to write a fiction novel.  Thank you to Beebe, whose meticulous editing and suggestions also helped the story to take shape.  And to Michelle at HigherLife, with her deeper level of content editing.
My thanks go out to all you who wrote blurbs that will appear on the opening pages of the book, Talk Till The Minutes Run Out: Beebe Bahrami, John Dixon, Robert Nichols, and Whitney Azoy.