The Devil's Interval
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Amy Rennert is the best_______. You can fill in the blank however you want. She’s the best literary agent, of course, but also the best reader, cheerleader, and more. Dear Amy, hard to believe, but words fail me.
Amy brought me together with Prospect Park Books. Publishers Colleen Dunn Bates and Patty O’Sullivan and their colleague Jennifer Bastien make a great team, and I am grateful for all their support.
I come from a family of readers and writers, and have learned from all of them. My siblings Laurie Winthrop and Larry Winthrop and sib-in-law Pat Winthrop are not only fine writers themselves, they also see promoting my work as a personal mission. My sister, who once ran my informal New York chapter, now lives in Geneva and is an advocate for my work in multiple European locations. My immediate literary Peterson posse—Ken, Ben, and Kate—provide cheer every day. Will Peterson, age seven and the newest Peterson wordsmith, may one day be the first right-handed slugger in the majors to recite poetry at bat.
Finally, I am grateful to my parents, Vauneta and Murray Winthrop, who taught me that while cleanliness is well and good, it is really bookishness that is next to Godliness. Like all the rest of us in miraculously long marriages, Maggie and Michael will continue to pursue the kind of relationship Neta and Murray created. Mom and Dad, you still inspire all of us.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Linda Lee Peterson is the managing partner of Peterson Skolnick & Dodge, a creative services agency based in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Portland, Oregon. A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, she was inspired to set her mysteries in the city that inspired Dashiell Hammett. Linda and her family now live in Portland, Oregon.