Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch (31 page)

THE END

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the hundreds of colleagues I met and friends I made during my years at
Adweek
,
Time
Magazine and the
Wall Street Journal
. This book wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t experienced together the highs and lows of print publishing, or sat through the Powerpoint presentations and training sessions, or lived through the takeovers and mergers that have defined the recent history of the media business.

A grateful shout-out to all the teachers who encouraged my youthful writing dreams or, when necessary, gave me a shove in the right direction, especially Fr. Alfred Thomas and Con O’Halpin, and the exceptional authors and writing instructors Susie Mee and Carol Emswhiller.

A big smile to all the writers I met through the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2009, in particular Kerry Dunn, Sheryl Dunn, Dwight Okita, Jarucia Jaycox Nirula, Steffan Piper, Brandi Lynn Ryder, Sofia Samatar and Robert Leland Taylor. And huge thanks to Alex Carr and Sarah Tomashek at AmazonEncore for their valuable advice and support throughout the publication process.

Finally, a very special note of appreciation to Martine Bellen, Heather Chase, Jennifer Cohen, Lloyd Cole, Catherine Cusset, Randy Dwenger, Ken Foster, Shelley Griffin, Philomena Hine, Lee Klein, Hilda McVeigh, J.B. Miller, Ben Neihart, Karen Quinn, Alessandro Ricciarelli, Victoria Skurnick and, most of all, the ever-inspiring Amanda Filipacchi.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

London-born Richard Hine began his career as an advertising copywriter. After moving to New York at the age of twenty-four, he held creative and marketing positions at
Adweek
;
Time
magazine, where he became publisher of
Time
’s Latin America edition; and the
Wall Street Journal
, where he was the marketing vice president responsible for the launch of the
Journal
’s Weekend Edition. Since 2006, Hine has worked as a marketing and media consultant, ghostwriter, and novelist. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary publications, including
London Magazine
and the
Brooklyn Review
. He lives in New York City with the novelist Amanda Filipacchi.