Dear Dave,

If all the authors on my shelf were like you:

J.K. Rowling would send a handwritten note to say thanks for pre-ordering.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti would introduce me around in San Francisco.
Paulo Coelho would send e-mails with useful life advice.
David Sedaris would meet me at the Raleigh-Durham airport.
And if Shakespeare wrote like you, I wouldn’t need the Cliff’s Notes.
You didn’t just write a book. You created an interactive experience.
You should win a Humanitarian Award for helping students.
And a Nobel Prize for decoding the ad world.

Thank you.