The internet is awash with advice to writers, much of it from people considerably more knowledgeable and qualified than I am. There's one piece of advice that occurred to me this week that I've never seen anywhere else, though. Read the acknowledgements. Nowhere else will you get a glimpse into the number of people and the amount of effort it really took to make that book what it is. I just submitted my acknowledgement sheets this week. Hopefully someone will read them and gi