The authors would like to thank all those who have been influential in guiding our paths and inspirational in shining a light for us to follow. Though each of us can point to scores of such friends, relatives, associates and distant pioneers, Chris would particularly like to thank Stephen Greenfield for bugging him (for 10 years!) about writing down the stuff in this book, and Melanie would like to thank her mother, whose brilliance laid the foundations for many of the insights that ultimately led to the Dramatica theory.

The concise and extensive support materials contained in this book would not have been possible without the help and input of many dedicated and insightful contributors. While gratefully acknowledging everyone's efforts, we would like to give a special thank you to members of the industry who attended our early seminars, our compatriots in the academic community who reviewed and scrutinized our work for accuracy. In addition, special thanks goes to Mark Haslett, who contributed many side notes and corrections to this book. Finally, our deepest appreciation to Sandy Stone, Mary Parrillo, Katy Monahan Huntley, and J.D. Cochran (associates with the Dramatica Project), and to all our friends and relatives who suffered our long-winded requests for opinions of these materials perhaps more than we suffered in creating them. Our profound gratitude to a gathering of great minds in support of a new idea.

 

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