(Back row, left to right) Mark Haynes, Joe James, Kevin
Brennan, (middle row) Steve Geppi, yours truly, Melissa Bowersox, (front row)
Mark Wheatley, and a ton of people not in the picture – including Adam Philips,
Tom Mason, Billy Tucci, Deborah Tucci, Michael Solof, Rita Jackson, Kevin Topham and most
importantly Rosina Ally – celebrated my promotion to Vice-President of
Publishing for Gemstone Publishing at Sally’s in San Diego.
Mark Wheatley did the amazing illustration of me.
Thanks to Missy for engineering the whole thing. And it was a complete surprise to me, which is no small
feat. And thanks, too, to everyone I just left out of that list. I can only plead Guide deadline fatigue at the moment.