Ravencliffe (Blythewood series) (37 page)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my intrepid band of early readers—Sarah Alpert, Gary Feinberg, Wendy Gold, Juliet Harrison, Alisa Kwitney, Scott Silverman, Nora Slonimsky, and Ethel Wesdorp. Thanks to my daughter, Maggie, whose webcomic PennyDreadful (Pennydreadfulcomics.com) has been a continual inspiration in the creation of the Blythewood books.

There were a number of excellent books I relied on for source material:
Triangle
by David von Drehle,
A Fierce Discontent
by Michael McGerr,
The Lost Sisterhood
by Ruth Rosen, and especially
Good Old Coney Island
by Edo McCullough, for which I am indebted for some of the original language of the Coney Island spielers.

I am most grateful to the Hawthornden Castle Retreat for Writers, where much of this book was written, for granting me a perfect month of quiet and inspiration.

Thanks to my wonderful editor, Kendra Levin, for her Darkling editorial ear and for shepherding the Blythewood books into creation, and to Ken Wright, Vanessa Han, Nancy Brennan, and Janet Pascal at Penguin. Thanks to my agent, Robin Rue, and her assistant Beth Miller, at Writers House for believing in these books.

And, as always, I couldn’t do any of this without the faith and love of my husband, Lee. You are my knight in shining armor.

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