Tingle Alley’s posts and comments on acknowledgements got me all inspired and I wrote a new musing about it. Enjoy and feel free to comment on it here.
Justine Larbalestier
The various writings of Justine Larbalestier
Tingle Alley’s posts and comments on acknowledgements got me all inspired and I wrote a new musing about it. Enjoy and feel free to comment on it here.
Very enjoyable musing! (BTW I love how weird the noun “musing” is in the singular like that–it’s kind of a great coinage.) I have seen some truly fulsome acknowledgments over the years, but unfortunately haven’t kept a collection. I will add one further use of acknowledgments–I found my genius agent by reading the acknowledgments of books I loved (and doing follow-up with Amazon’s “search within the book,” and reading less well-known books by other clients of hers to see whether I thought it would be a good fit) to see who they thanked.
Jenny D: glad you liked it. Yup, acks are all kinds of useful. I too have used them to figure out who represents who—especially useful during my current agent search.