title: I May Not Be Totally Perfect, but Parts of Me Are Excellent (Brilliant Thoughts Series, No. 1)
author:  Ashleigh Brilliant 
description: A dazzling collection of witty and wise Pot Shots, or Brilliant Thoughts . . . illustrated epigrams that will inspire your personal quest for telling communication. Fresh, funny, wistful, bright; they may well reflect some of your own deep or whimsical thoughts.
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  # [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](../Text/9780545389402_epub_toc_r1.htm#ack)
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s going to be impossible to thank everyone involved in bringing this series
  into being, so rest assured that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
  
  
  
  
  
  I need to thank Scholastic for being incredibly supportive of the series and
  very tolerant of my quirks. In particular: my editor, David Levithan, for not
  sending villagers with pitchforks after me after I threw it all away; the
  ever-smiling Rachel Coun and the rest of marketing, for their animal cunning;
  Tracy van Straaten, Becky Amsel, and Samantha Grefe for cookies, sanity, and
  bathroom breaks; Stephanie Anderson and the production team, who make me look
  more clever than I am; Christopher Stengel, for continued impeccable design;
  the incredible foreign rights team of Rachel Horowitz, Janelle DeLuise, Lisa
  Mattingly, and Maren Monitello — it’s not easy to make me feel at home 3,000
  miles away, but they pull it off absolutely every time.
  
  
  
  
  
  And in non-Scholastic