by Lucy Hounsom
Before Megan invited me to co-host Breaking the Glass Slipper, I’d never worked on a podcast before. We’re now at the end of our second season and I’ve learned such a lot. We’ve had some high-profile authors on the show, recorded a dozen diverting interviews and generally had a good time dissecting tricky topics. Thank you Megan and Charlotte; long may the Slipper reign.
To James Southwood, Josi Palm, Reda Haq and Kimberley Croft for being top friends who put up with my rants about the world with remarkable grace. I don’t see you often enough, but when I do, we always have the best time.
Thank you to fellow writer-sister, Laura, for her unerring ability to help straighten the kinks in any plot or character arc and also for just being an excellent sister. Read her books, they’re good. Thanks to my aunt and uncle for letting me descend on their home without warning whenever I need to go to London. And thank you Mum and Dad for your obviously biased yet unswerving belief in me and this all too ethereal purpose to which I’ve put my life. I can’t express how much your love and support means to me.
Finally and perhaps the biggest thank you to everyone who has stuck with Kyndra until the very end. You are the reason I can do what I love and be who I am.
First published 2017 by Pan Books
This electronic edition published 2017 by Pan Books
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