by Ruth Vincent
My cousin, YA author Claudia Gray—thank you for your excellent pointers on the writing business, and for always being the right mix of sage and snark. I feel grateful to have someone in the family who has traveled down this road before!
Paragraph LLC—thank you for providing a quiet haven, where I wrote many drafts of this manuscript, and for the silent solidarity of other working writers.
My dear friends, especially Emma Carswell-Engle, Jeannine Pitas, Anna Michalczyk, and Sarah Bitner—thank you for your support and love, and for always believing I could do this, even when I wasn’t so sure myself. My life is so much richer because of your friendship.
My friend Rebecka Himmselbach—if it wasn’t for our early “writer meetings,” I would never have finished my first manuscript, and none of this would have ever happened. I love and miss you.
The friends, mentors, and family members who have passed on: Ned O’Gorman, Elfie Raymond, and my grandmother, the original Ruth Vincent. Each of you, in your own way, loved the written word—and taught me to love it too. I know you all would have gotten such a big kick out of seeing me in print.
My parents, Jim and Rosie Vincent—I will always be grateful for your unwavering love and support. “Super Fairy” may have grown up, but some things never change. Thank you for always being my biggest fans.
And most of all my husband, Matthew Schechtman. Thank you for everything—for your brilliant brainstorming and plotting suggestions, which rescued me from many a thorny plot hole, for comforting and humoring me during the all times I was freaking out, and for always believing I was a writer, even when I didn’t believe it myself. You show me every day that real love is better than any fantasy. I love you more than words can say.
About the Author
RUTH VINCENT spent a nomadic childhood moving across the USA, culminating in a hop across the pond to attend Oxford. But wherever she wanders, she remains ensconced within the fairy ring of her imagination. Ruth recently traded the gritty urban fantasy of NYC for the pastoral suburbs of Long Island, where she resides with her roguishly clever husband and a cockatoo who thinks she’s a dog.
Learn more at www.ruthvincent.com.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
ELIXIR. Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Vincent-Schechtman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007.
EPub Edition MAY 2016 ISBN: 9780062466181
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062466198
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