Sometimes when you’re mired in the process of your novel, it feels like you’re laboring alone and no one else could possibly understand the world inside your head. Then you take a breath and look around and see all the amazing people helping you along the way.
First and foremost, thank you to everyone who read Wendy, Darling and had nice things to say about it. Your encouragement and enthusiasm bolstered me while writing this book.
Thank you to Sophie Robinson, my very patient editor, who helped me hone and focus the story through many revisions, and even helped find it a title. A huge thank you as well to the entire team at Titan for everything from editorial work, to making the book look gorgeous, to getting it out in the world.
Thank you to my agent, Barry Goldblatt, for believing in my work, and for providing excellent feedback.
A huge thank you to Fran Wilde for her thoughtful reading and amazing advice, and thank you (always) to A.T. Greenblatt, Stephanie Feldman, Fran Wilde (yes, she deserves to be thanked twice), Sarah Pinsker, and Siobhan Carroll, for being wonderful critique partners and wonderful friends. This novel wouldn’t exist without all of you. I deeply appreciate you listening to me talk out plot points, complain, and occasionally cackle with glee.
There are several people I need to thank in general for their friendship and support over the years, and for overall being wonderful—Matt and Amy Bush, Therese Marmion, Jane Wightman, Janet Ankcorn, Janis Morrow, the Gibson Family, E. Catherine Tobler, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Scott Andrews, Usman T. Malik, Suzan Palumbo, John Wiswell, and Arley Sorg.
Always, always, always I owe an incredible amount of thanks to my husband and my amazing family (including the four-legged members).
Finally, thank you to J.M. Barrie for creating Captain Hook in the first place so that I could take so many delightful liberties with his character.