I learn something new with every book I write, but the thing that is constant is this job can’t be done alone. Thank you to Jillian Manning for cultivating this vision, and to Sara Bierling, Matt Saganski, and Mary Hassinger for picking it up and running with it. I’m so grateful to the whole team at Blink for all your hard work and support. Huge thanks to Kevan Lyon for always steering the ship in the right direction.
Thank you to Amy Burns, Jill Burdick-Zupancic, Penny Slawkowski, and Susan Bruno for sharing your expertise. To the writers and readers who make this process more joyful—you’re my favorites: Katherine Locke, Rebekah Campbell, Rebecca Paula, Leigh Smith, Sarah Emery, Katy Upperman, McCall Hoyle, Alison Gervais, Amanda Summers, Olivia Hinebaugh, Lisa Maxwell, and Suzette Henry. To the friends who have stuck by me for literal decades and helped shape the friends I write about—I love you, you’re the best.
Every time a teacher, librarian, blogger, or bookseller connects a book with a reader, an angel gets their wings. I am forever in debt to those book superheroes who have read my stories, shared them with someone else, written a review, attended an event, invited me to speak, or otherwise supported me. I could not do this without you.
Thank you always to my family, especially my parents and my in-laws, who bend over backwards to love and support me. And most of all, thank you to my husband and daughter, who are my home—you make it all worth it.