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To the great friends who have been my lights: Emily Ellsworth, Kylie Comfoltey, Carla Morris, Sara Larson, Kathryn Purdie, Jennifer and J. Scott Savage, Mark Holt, Celesta Rimington, Melanie Jex, Lauren Widtfeldt, Trina Hsieh, Rachel Coleman, Kerry Fray, Melissa Walker, Cori Vella, Ashley Crosby, Jess Smart Smiley, Mikayla McIntyre, and many, many others. I am blessed to have so many remarkable people to love. Many thanks to the YA Scream Queens: Hillary Monahan, Catherine Scully, J. R. Johansson, Lindsay Currie, Lauren Roy, Sarah Jude, Trisha Leaver, and Dawn Kurtagich. I hope we’re screaming together for years to come, ladies.
Thank you to Diantha French, who taught me about shutter drag and took my killer author photos. Thank you, Marie Teemant, for showing me how to develop film in a darkroom.
Thank you to Josh Callahan and the team at Wilson|Meany, who gave me a personal tour of San Francisco’s historic Pacific Bell Building. Sorry to demolish the top of your beautiful building in fiction!
Thank you to Jason Graves, whose musical scores are truly, deeply terrifying. My best work is done while listening to yours.
To Mom and Dad, my deepest gratitude and affection. Children are not born readers, we are raised readers. If I have achieved any modicum of success, it is because you put books in my hands and kept putting books in my hands. Mom, thank you for taking me to the library, for letting me read (mostly) unsupervised, and for promising me I hadn’t seen the last of Gandalf in the Mines of Moria. And, Dad, thank you for the childhood ride-alongs, for stakeouts at two in the morning, for plastering my face to the passenger-side window doing a U-turn at sixty miles an hour. Those moments stuck.
And finally—Mr. Stoker, no tale ever frightened me as deeply as yours did. Thank you for giving the world Dracula.
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