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
  
  
  Once again, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my two critique partners,
  Courtney Milan and Amy Baldwin, and others who read various drafts of the
  manuscript: Lindsey, Terri, Janga, Santa, Elyssa, and Tiffany.
  
  
  Many thanks to my editor, Kate Collins, and the entire team at Ballantine,
  including Kelli Fillingim, Junessa Viloria, Linda Marrow, Caitlin Kuhfeldt,
  copy editor Martha Trachtenberg, and the wonderful art department. I continue
  to be ever grateful for my agent, the amazing Helen Breitwieser, and for Kim
  Castillo, who truly is an author’s best friend!
  
  
  Thanks to all who helped me with various facets of research: Sarah, for her
  horse expertise; Jenny, for the knowledge of opera; Frances, for the theater
  lighting; and Kalen, for being the go-to on costumes. Any mistakes I’ve made
  or liberties I’ve taken are, of course, mine.
  
  
  Lastly, I want to thank my family. Writing romance would be much more
  difficult, had I not always been surrounded by so many ex