We wish to express gratitude to Mitch Horowitz, our editor, who first suggested this book, our publisher, Joel Fotinos, Ashley Shelby, Alli-son Sobel, Kelly Groves, Katie Grinch,Jean-Marie Pierson, and the oth-ers at Tarcher/Penguin who have helped to make this book come to life. We also acknowledge the helpfulness of our agents, Bob Diforio, Marilyn Allen, and Colleen O'Shea. We owe special appreciation to Dave Fuller, Tim Talevich, and Anita Thompson of The Costco Connection who enabled us to use our column to identify many of the people whose stories appear in the snapshots, which helped assure that the book reflects the individual creativity that people employ in creating fifty-plus businesses for themselves. Similarly we thank Dottie Walters and Ivan Misner, whose vast contacts led us to other interesting people in this book. We thank Deborah Russell, Director of Economic Security, AARP for insights she generously provided.

We happily acknowledge April Durham and her husband, Bryan Gor-rie, whose thousands of phone calls and e-mails helped to locate most of the people whose experience is reflected in the business profiles. We also thank Rick Benzel and April Durham for their editorial support in helping us organize the volume of information we fathered.

Finally, we thank the hundreds of people who allowed us to interview them, They shared their experience and expertise as well as insights, wis-dom, cautions, and inspiration that helped us appreciate the possibili-ties for living the life you want to live while doing work you want to do after fifty.

 

Paul and Sarah Edwards are award- winning authors of sixteen books, in-cluding Working From Home, the First commercially published book on the topic. They operate the Pine Mountain Institute from their home of-fice in a mountain community in California from which they provide coaching and teach online courses based on the theme that motivates all their witing―living the lige you want to live while doing the work you want to do, They also broadcast a live radio show from their home office.

Paul and Sarah are columnists for Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur's BYOB, Hjomeofficemag. Com, and Costco Connection and were named as Speakers of the Year by Sharing Ideas magazine in 1996.

They operate two Web sites where they can be contacted directly, www.workingfromhome.com Updates and added content for this book will be found on the Working fromHome.com Wed site or can be accessed kirecty at www.50Pluscoaching.com Paul and Sarah welcome learninge abbout resources they can add or updates you have for the information in the book.