title: The Heart Of A Ready Scribe: 52 Reflections For Writers
author:  Melanie Stiles 
description: Melanie Stiles is an award-winning writer and an AACC Master Life Coach with hundreds of bylines in various publications, including Family Tree, The Sentinel, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating Brothers &amp; Sisters, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Magic. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, where she enjoys gardening and scrapbooking.
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  ## [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-95)
  
  
  Another several-hundred-page book could easily be filled with grateful words
  for all those who encouraged, helped, and guided me along the journey to
  publication. There are too many of you to name, and I’m thankful to every
  person who saw me as a writer long before I accepted it as part of myself.
  
  
  Firstly, huge thanks are owed to my fabulous agent, Alexandra Machinist, who
  saw promise in this story and helped me shape it into something much greater
  than I could have managed on my own—then sold it in what felt like the blink
  of an eye. You are the kind of dedicated and passionate advocate every writer
  should be so lucky as to have on her side. Thanks also to outstanding
  assistants Laura Regan and Hillary Jacobsen, who coordinated all manner of
  calls and paperwork with speed and grace.
  
  
  Kristin Rens, having you as the editor for my debut novel was a blessing
  beyond compare. Your kindness, thoughtfulness, and thoroughness carried
  thr