The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg (22 page)

Acknowledgments

First, Lindsey Moore is a great editor. Lindsey is perceptive and creative and I can't thank her enough for taking a chance on this book. Thank you to my great agent, Jim McCarthy, who is calm when I am not. My Lit6 pals? Steph Ash, Brady Bergeson, and Sam Osterhout? I owe you so much. In fact, thank you to the whole EARS crew: Dave Salmela, Jenny Adams, Kurt Froehlich, Paul D. Dickenson, Mike Brady, Peter Robelia, Tony Mogelson, Kevin Riach, and Quillan Roe. To the web team: Andy Sturdevant and Karen Kopacz. Thank you to my Hamline University peers who had an impact on this book: Shannon Schenck, Susan Montag, Scott Wisgerhof, Dave Oppegaard, Sandy Beach, and Alison Morse (more great friends here than I can mention). Thank you to Hamline teachers: Deborah Keenan, Mary Rockcastle, and, especially, Sheila O'Connor. I am forever indebted to the Hamline program. I would be remiss if I didn't thank Jen and Colin Plese, Jason Jones, Duane McLaughlin, and Brad Thayer, all of whom are brilliant and all of whom retarded my ability to function normally at exactly the right moment. Thank you to URPL stars Branden Born and Jerry Kaufman. And, of course, to Marty McGinley, Todd Louthain, Chris Bierbrauer, and the whole Platteville crew. Thanks to George Jonas and Mary Healy Jonas. Thanks to Jason Oates. Thanks to my incredible, supportive, and talented family (so much to Vovo, Michael Zahler, Jonathan Herbach, Yol and Steve, Marisa, and Grandma Elinor). Thanks to Amy Naughton. And, finally, thank you to my beautiful kids, Leo and Mira, who are seemingly not nonplussed at having a slightly weird dad. I love you so much.

Copyright © 2008 by Geoff Herbach

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Earlier versions of Letters 4, 5, and 6 originally appeared in
Workers Write! Tales from the Cubicle,
edited by David LaBounty (Blue Cubicle Press LLC, Plano, Texas, 2005).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Herbach, Geoff.
         The miracle letters of T. Rimberg : a novel / Geoff Herbach. — 1st ed.
                  p. cm.
1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Depressed persons—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.E725M57 2008
813'.6—dc22

2007044762

eISBN: 978-0-307-44963-4

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