The accidental joe, p.27
The Accidental Joe, page 27
My last thought before I drifted off was the same one I started with. What’s next?
When I woke up the next morning, Cammie was still there.
THE END
acknowledgments
Gretchen Young, my Dream Editor of those original Richard Castle books, is now my Dream Publisher at Regalo Press, proving dreams not only come true, they recur. I’m back in Camelot.
Thanks go to Alton Brown—food phenom, TV host, author, and friend—for advice, smarts, inspiration, and laughter.
I celebrate José Andrés, culinary force and a model citizen of the world. His charitable works have made the globe much less hangry.
John Parry, dear friend and veteran Food Network director, shared priceless expertise and encouragement.
Some great author pals deserve applause. Like Peter Blauner, to whom I first whispered the idea for this book, and whose support never faded. I also got a boost from my Magical Mystery Zoomers: Reed Farrel Coleman, Matt Goldman, Charles Salzberg, and Michael Wiley. Linwood Barclay provided scaffolding and inspo. Then there’s Howard A. Rodman, Jr., whose Paris pointers were indispensable in setting scenes with cred and vision. Ken Levine, who mentored me as a wannabe TV writer and gave me my start, reminded me (as always) to begin with a murder.
Thanks to my book agent David Hale Smith and teammate Naomi Eisenbeiss at InkWell. Also, to my longtime TV agent, Nancy Josephson at WME, for her wise guidance and encouragement, and to Sanjana Seelam who joined the effort to usher my novel to TV.
Major thanks to my publicist, SallyAnne McCartin, who made sure the only thing secret about this book were the agents in my story.
To the readers, particularly the supporters of my Richard Castle novels; I surfed your wave. Never to be forgotten.
In that vein, I am forever grateful to Terri Edda Miller and to Castle creator and guiding hand in my Heat novels, Andrew W. Marlowe. Once collaborators, now friends.
And bouquets to Jennifer Allen, first reader, first believer, first in my heart, forever.
Tom Straw, The Accidental Joe
