Pretty Girl Thirteen (32 page)

Authors: Liz Coley

BOOK: Pretty Girl Thirteen

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Angie’s story raises a number of questions. If you could simply delete your most awful memories, should you? Would you be the same person? What would you gain? What would you lose?

Acknowledgements

Many thanks are due—to my supportive community of writers, including NaNoWriMo, SCBWI, the SF&F Online Writing Workshop, and Context; to my first readers, Rachel Lentz, Gio Clairval, Jodi Meadows, and Erin Stocks; to my middle readers, Deborah Yeager, Kate Coley, and Gemma Cooper; to all the friends and family who watched and encouraged my growth as an author; to my agents, Joanna Volpe and Nancy Coffey, who believed in the promise; and to my editor, Katherine Tegen, who made it happen.

About the Author

Liz Coley’s short fiction has appeared in
Cosmos
magazine and speculative fiction anthologies. Her passions beyond reading and writing include singing, photography, and baking. She plays competitive tennis locally in Ohio to keep herself fit and humble.

With a background in science, Liz follows her interest in understanding ‘the way we work’ down many interesting roads.
Pretty Girl Thirteen’
s journey into the perilous world of dissociative identity disorder is one of them.

Copyright

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Liz Coley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Source ISBN: 9780007468515

Ebook Edition © February 2013 ISBN: 9780007468522

Version 1

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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