Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
“Thank you, Elizabeth Terzakis—my cowriter—who from the first time we met said, ‘This is a story that must be told,’ and (because of you) now it has.”
Race for Profit
“I owe a special thanks to friend and fellow writer Elizabeth Terzakis, who read the manuscript and rigorously edited every sentence on every page, and whose hard work has been indispensable to the final draft.”
This Flame Within
“My sincere gratitude goes to Elizabeth Terzakis for meticulous proofreading that sharpened my thinking and my prose….I’ll always be grateful I was lucky enough to be your student…”
Welcome to the Terrordome
“Thanks to my editor Elizabeth Terzakis, scourge and slayer of the salacious simile (and foe of alliteration). Elizabeth—when she’s not teaching or agitating—happens to be the most talented editor on earth. She deserves all credit for fighting for a vision of what this book could be.”
What’s My Name, Fool?
“Eternal gratitude to Elizabeth Terzakis—editor extraordinaire—who had the task of ironing out every disturbed, nonsensical metaphor and disciplining me to limit the erotic references to Dick Cheney. Any sentence herein with a modicum of grace is the result of her efforts. Anything crude, offensive, or nauseating is present over her objections (or behind her back).”
“Exposure”
She fell on the sixth day, their first mishap. The in-the-car aspect of the trip was working out better than he had hoped. She didn’t talk too much. She sang. She knew the words and could carry a tune, and that is what she did. She also did the driving, the lenses of her sunglasses reflecting the flat gray blade of the road as it sliced through the steppes of Nebraska and the mountain-strewn deserts of Colorado. Even before she fell, Lily scared him…