Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage (27 page)
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Authors: Jenny Block
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acknowledgments
I want to thank Seal Press for being
courageous enough to take on this project, and Rachel Kramer Bussel for helping them find me. I want to thank my editor, Brooke Warner, for working tirelessly with me every step of the way, no matter how painful some of those steps turned out to be. I want to thank my husband for loving me and allowing me the time and space required to write a book. And I want to thank my daughter for her hugs and kisses and patience. I want to thank Jemma, who inspired me, pushed me, guided me, and saved me about a thousand times through this process. I want to thank my family for all of their love and, specifically, my sister for listening (endlessly and thoughtfully), my father for brainstorming and being my faithful research assistant (read: typist), and my mother for remaining calm (for the most part).
I want to thank all of the Wild Writer Women of Nimrod Hall for always being there for me; Charlotte Morgan and Cathy Hankla (our fearless leaders) for reminding me that
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the work must be done; the staff and guests for their support; and Frankie and Jimmy Apistolas for giving me a place to renew my body and rekindle my spirit every year. I want to thank Andrea Horton and Tonya Rogers for standing by me without falter. I want to thank Scott Whittal and the entire crew at my favorite coffee shop, Buli, for letting me “office” there for nearly a year. I want to thank
Tango
magazine for publishing and
The Huffington Post
for running “Portrait of an Open Marriage,” the piece that led me to this book. I want to thank each person who took the time to fill out a survey for me or respond to my writing online. And I want to thank everyone whose stories and writing and research informed my work all along the way.
I also want to thank Jimmy Belasco, my spiritual advisor, for grounding me and reminding me that the universe provides (all I have to do is be still enough to hear what it is offering); Geoff Shandler for all of his sage advice; Erika Buentello for my gorgeous website and stationary; Jessica Valenti for allowing me to guest blog on Feministing.com; Scogin Mayo for my gorgeous author photo; Gigi Coker and Rose Mariano for making me feel gorgeous in that photo; my publicist Andie East for all of the amazing work she did to get this book out there; and Big J for her open mind, open arms, and open heart. Thank you to all of my friends, family members, and colleagues who supported me and believed in me and loved me. This book belongs to all of us.
about the author
© Scogin Mayo
jenny block is a freelance writer
whose work has appeared in a variety of regional and national publications, including
American Way, Cosmopolitan
(Germany),
Spirit, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Voice, BeE, bRILLIANT, People Newspapers, Where, D, D Home, Dallas CEO, Stone, Pointe, Virginia Living, Style Weekly,
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Tango, R Health,
and
Richmond
magazine. Her online work includes pieces for HuffingtonPost.com, ElleGirl.com, LiteraryMama.com, Chow.com, and PoshCravings.com. In addition, she’s contributed essays to
It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters
(Seal Press, 2006) and
Letters to My Teacher
(Adams, 2005). She also serves as the senior travel editor for
Stone Magazine.
Jenny holds both her bachelor’s and her master’s degrees in English from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she taught composition for nearly ten years. She also spent time teaching at both the University of Richmond and Strayer University, writing and lecturing about teaching and learning for the
Newsweek
Education Program and writing academic ancilliaries for Addison Wesley Longman. She lives with her family in what is affectionately referred to as “the South.”
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