Kiss of Broken Glass
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am thankful to my daughter, Jacquie, for sharing her story and lending her natural editorial instincts to this project, for making sure the words rang true, and for prying my most beloved and stupid metaphors out of the manuscript before I embarrassed myself.
To my son, Ben, for inspiring my earlier work, for opening up conference doors where I learned how to bring audiences to their feet, and for never letting me off the hook about actually finishing a book one day.
To my husband, Larry, for handling countless loads of laundry and dishes and dinners while I sank into my story, and for listening to my endless manuscript rants about how I-love-it-I-hate-it-I-love-it-I-hate-it! Even in the middle of a Michigan game.
To my parents, Jerry and Jacquie Frissell, for raising me to listen, learn, and love. And especially to my mom, for believing in me . . . always.
To my sister, Carolyn Schiffner, for a lifetime of closeness, for buckling up on this wild ride, and for creating my rockin’ website.
To my aunt, Madeleine Van Hecke, for being my sounding board even at the deep end.
To my friends Karen Hutto and Mark Snyder, for the precious gift of time.
To my mentors—
Lee Bennett Hopkins, who gave me heart.
Sonya Sones, who gave me courage.
Joyce Sweeney, who gave me brains.
To Charles Egita for his magical salad.
To my Sisters in Verse for their support at Highlights.
And to all my critique group partners who have made me a better writer, especially—
Karen Bachman, Susan Banghart, Nancy J. Cavanaugh, Michele Ivy Davis, Peggy Robbins Janousky, Sue LaNeve, Cristy Carrington Lewis, and Rob Sanders.
And finally—
To my legendary agent, George Nicholson, for his care.
To my brilliant editor Toni Markiet, for her trust.
And to the serendipity of Alex Flinn, for bringing us together.
But most of all—
To the slippery hand of God,
for touching my words.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MADELEINE KUDERICK grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, a community with a rich literary tradition, where she was editor in chief of the same high school newspaper that Ernest Hemingway wrote for as a teen. She now lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast with her husband and two children.