jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
1. Yes! Acknowledge your editors and artists - and the copy editors! And the page designers! And your publicists! And so on! It's kind to acknowledge their labor, people like to be appreciated, and it's good to show people books take more than one person to make.
2. I've had 40+ books over 20+ years, including award winners and bestsellers, and I've written acknowledgements in nearly all of them, so the person who says it's "amateur" to acknowledge your editors, etc, can go fuck themselves.