Many thanks to my lovely editor, Mallory Loehr, and to Chelsea Eberly and Jenna Lettice; my wonderful copy editor, Deborah Dwyer; Jan Gerardi; and the whole great team at Random House Children’s Books.
Thank you very much to Kristin Nelson and everyone at NLA for everything, forever.
And thank you to Ginger Clark: so sorry to torment you like I have!
Thank you to Venetia Gosling and Ellie Willis and Gail Hallett and the team at Simon & Schuster UK, for every stage of the Lynburn Legacy series! And to Kathryn McKenna and Sophie Stott for combining their publicity powers.
Thank you to Robin Wasserman, Maureen Johnson, Malinda Lo, Delia Sherman, Cindy Pon, Paolo Bacigalupi, Josh Lewis, Ally Carter, Jen Lynn Barnes, Leigh Bardugo, Karen Healey, R. J. Anderson, Saundra Mitchell, Kelly Link, Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black. Thank you for your support and your excellent faces. Especial thanks to Holly for the poem. She knows the one. (The suggestion that I should say “Thanks to all the jerks who got me through this!” was, as you can see, noted.)
Thank you to my Irish friends—I love you and by the time you read this will be missing you. Hello to my UK and American and Australian friends!
Thank you to Chiara for Con Dau, where I got the edits for this book, but more importantly where we were friends for twenty-two years. Here’s to twenty-two more, bestie.
Thank you to my family. Sorry for making fun of you on Twitter all the time.
I never knew, until this series, that I could torment people I did not know, lay waste to their dreams, blow holes in their ships, and drink their tears.
I regret nothing.
I hope you feel the same!