I’m incredibly fortunate to have landed at Atria/Simon & Schuster, and am forever grateful for Sarah Cantin, Stephanie Mendoza, and Hillary Tisman for making my every writerly dream come true. Thank you doesn’t seem like enough to agent extraordinaire, Mark Gottlieb, and all the foreign rights team at Trident Media Group. I’m so lucky it’s ridiculous. To all my first readers: Elizabeth Buhmann, my Badass critique team: Aimie, Jamie, Andrea, Theresa, Ella, Orly, and Gwen, you guys are amazing. Also Karen Katchur, Ann Garvin, Amy Impellizzeri, Sonja Yoerg, Amy Nathan, and Kimberly Giarratano. Everything you say is gospel, I swear to God.
To my writer tribe, Tall Poppy Writers, I’d be so lost without you all. Sarah D, you’ll be in every acknowledgment forever because without you, I wouldn’t ever have written a word. I still have my reindeer fur.
To my family, especially those of you who talk about my books loudly and often, even when not entirely appropriate to do so, you’re the best. To Mom and Dottie, who cover kid duty when I have to play author, I’m eternally grateful. Love my village.
Thanks to my dad, the greatest teacher I ever had. Nothing from this book was stolen from his impeccable career.
And finally, to Chip and my girls, who play a constant second fiddle to the muse in my mind and only seem to get really irritated with me when you have to say it a third time. I appreciate your mostly bottomless patience. I love you to the moon and back.