“I have begun half a dozen books in my life and finished one.  They were all going to be my all.  Each time I started a book, I knew that this time I would finish a book. But I didn't. Then I didn't again.  And again and again.  I'm talking about a 25 year history of being so revved up about writing a book that I could think of nothing else but the book.  And then a month or two later, the fire was out, again.

“And then along came Anna.  Soon after we met, she became the editor of my articles.  Six months and six articles later, we decided to do a book.  When I say we I mean we as in my job would be to write the book, and her job would be to make sure I wrote the book.  How did she do it? By letting, no, insisting, that I be me.  By helping me overcome all the things that had been in my way before, things I didn't even know about.  And by being relentlessly passionate about writing, and words, and details, and generalities, and my project.

“I met Anna, and then I wrote a book.”

Tommy Angelo, poker coach and author of Elements of Poker