Strangeworlds Travel Agency
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To my editors at Orion Children’s, Lena McCauley and Samantha Swinnerton, I thank you both to the stars and back again. Most people are phenomenally lucky if they get one awesome editor, but I had TWO! Thank you for putting the Strangeworlds Travel Agency in business, and for all your wonderful work.
Thank you to the whole team at Hachette Children’s Group, including the Rights team for all their hard work sending Flick and Jonathan around the world, to Dominic Kingston for PR, and to Samuel Perrett and Natalie Smillie for designing and illustrating a cover so beautiful I’m thinking of having it tattooed on my back.
Shout-out to Nicole Jarvis, who let me Charles Dickens my way through the first draft by sending her two hundred words at a time to read over Twitter DMs. To Darran Stobbart and Melinda Salisbury, for keeping secrets and donating your names so I could turn them into candy. A thousand thanks to Steve Jones, Peter L., and Gabriel Wulff for being wonderful sensitivity readers. Thank you to my writing tribe on Twitter, including Alice S-H, Alice Oseman, Laura Steven, George Lester, and Jo Hogan. And thank you to Steph Elliott, Jo Clarke, and Louise Inniss for being the best cheerleaders an author could hope for.
Kudos to the entire AO3 community for being a bottomless pool of stories, feedback, hope, and support—keep writing, everyone. Thank you Lia Louis for putting up with stressful text messages about eye-bags and eating packet-ham out of the fridge, and to Nick for being my best friend in the whole multiverse. And a special mention to Oliver Clark and Sana Aslam, who have been there since the start.
To my wonderful family… Thank you for putting up with me. Thank you to my parents for giving my imagination the space to grow along with me, and for pretending you didn’t know I was reading under the covers every single night. And to Anton and Joseph… You are my world, my home, my multiverse. I love you so much.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L. D. LAPINSKI lives just outside Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, with her family, a lot of books, and a cat called Hector. L. D. first wrote a book when she was seven; it was made of lined paper and tape, and it was about a frog who owned an airplane.
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