MySecondWind: Coming March 1

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Coming March 1

Follow me, Maggie Grant, on my journey through My Second Wind, a novel set in West Texas and Texas Tech University.

Coming March 1, 2011.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks go to Roger K. Haldenby, vice president, operations, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., for his time and knowledge about growing cotton on Llano Estacado.

To Dahlen Hancock, West Texas cotton farmer extraordinaire, for explanations of all things cotton—and for the lone cotton seed that flourished in my backyard garden in Dallas.

To Wayne Kohout, longtime friend, resident of Lubbock, for his eager tidbits and edits of the city he loves, and all things playas.

Jim Steiert and Wyman Meinzer for their stunning book Playas, Jewels of the Plains, borrowed from Wayne!

To Captain Randall E. Sanders and Sgt. Dennis Wilson of the Dallas Fire Department, arson and bomb squads, respectively, for their assistance with several scenarios.

To Phil Nash, Professional Engineer, Texas Tech University professor, for his eager explanations of the Rube Goldberg competition. I hope he doesn’t mind that I put him in the book.

To Cameron Carter, Saddle Tramp President, 2009-2010, for everything good and glorious about his beloved organization. And for allowing me to visit and photograph the inside of the sacred Saddle Tramp bell tower.

To Texas Tech University Library, for assistance in research.

To the lady in the elevator of the Architecture Building who suggested I find Nolan Barrick’s Texas Tech University, The Unobserved Heritage book about the architecture of early campus buildings.

To Texas Tech University Facilities and Planning Department for their willing help in showing blue prints and details of buildings.

To Coy Harris of the American Windmill Center, Lubbock, who in no way resembles the character in the book. His love of windmills and windpower is a joy to behold. You need to go see this fabulous museum that is NOT on the Tech campus, but in McKenzie Park.

To Kristine Hughes, Dallas; Russ Arendell, Fern Arendell, Lubbock; and Chris McKinney, Phoenix, for reading the rough draft and offering invaluable insight into how to make it better.

To dear friends Sharon Kohout and Carol Lagasse for allowing me to use them as the basis for the character’s “bestest BFFs.”

And to Joe Guerra, husband of “too many years to count,” for supporting the effort of my first book, not minding the missed dinners and the long hours I was married to the MacIntosh instead of him. His deep faith in God and in me has helped sustain and transform me.