by Dan Mooney
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
If I was to thank everyone who had a role to play in making me, and this book, you’d have to read 498,113 pages of acknowledgments. We don’t have the time, people... So just a couple of crucial ones: Mam and Dad, thanks for the endless support and encouragement even when I seemed like a weird kid. Ci, Jean and Paul, thanks for always being there for me, and for tolerating the vanishing acts. Mike, John and Tara, I’m glad you’re all my family.
To Alex Dunne, at any moment of your choosing you may demand any limb or internal organ you fancy and it’s yours. Thank you for the work.
For endless support and occasional bullying, my thanks to Grainne O’Brien, who remains the most like-me person I know. Let’s never change.
To the other Amigos: Will and John, please change. Pete Moles’s name is being deliberately omitted from this acknowledgment.
For all the others from the various gangs: theater, work, writing, school both primary and secondary, college, all my various jobs and the Banter Brigade—cheers for all the pints.
To test readers Enda Sheehy, Ciara (again) and Barney, cheers for always thinking it was good, when it was really awful. To the Test-Readers-in-Chief, Eadaoin O’Neill and Paul Shinnors—thanks for telling me where it wasn’t good when it was really awful. And of course Mr. Phil Shanahan, who gave this book its title when I was too lazy and tired to know better.
To Paul in Moviedrome. Thanks for the endless use of your computers and the stacks upon stacks of paper.
It’s cliché for writers to thank their most beloved for their patience, but there’s a damn fine reason for that. Thanks, Christine, for putting up with me. Despite the snoring.
Whatever success this book accrues will be fundamentally down to two people and two companies. My eternal thanks to Lauren Parson at Legend Press and Liz Stein at Park Row Books and all the others in both of those companies who have worked hard to help make this what it is. The fact that I have almost no idea what I’m doing has made all your jobs harder, and so I’m extra grateful for the help. You’ve made this a better book and taught me a lot in a frighteningly short space of time.
To Elaine Hanson, who has given everything to highlight issues surrounding men’s mental health, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Finally, and most important, thank you to Luke Bitmead. I wish I knew you. I think me and you might have been friends.
Stand up and fight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Mooney is a thirty-three-year-old amateur filmmaker and air traffic controller, and a friend to many cats. He wrote his first piece of fiction for a child-operated local newspaper at age ten and has been writing ever since. He lives in Ireland. Me, Myself and Them is his first novel.
ISBN-13: 9781488082993
Me, Myself and Them
Copyright © 2018 by Dan Mooney
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