The Toxic Children (5 page)

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, if you are reading this,
thank you
. A story is a communication, and a communication has no use if it never reaches anyone. Thank you for being the other side of the void.

Thank you to Keith, Leigh, and my dad for being the first beta readers. Especially Keith and Leigh, for wanting me to just fucking do this already.

Thank you to Crowder, for being the one who listens. I don’t know where I’d be without you. I’m infinitely grateful for all of it (and the rest to come).

Thank you to all of the people who have said you couldn’t wait to read my writing. You finally got your chance. I hope it was everything you imagined, or nothing you imagined at all.

Thank you to Patrick Rothfuss for the advice when I was 15…that I failed to thank you for until years later. Consider the existence of this book further proof of my appreciation.

Thank you to Jessie for so much, to Zeb for being the best Sup and senior, to JPG for the encouragement and for July 11
th
, to Quigs for everything you do. Thank you to Alex E, for getting me that much closer. Thank you to Jas and Pat. I have to stop here, or I’ll name 40 people, so instead I’ll leave it at this:

Thank you to LFM. You are my family, and I’m a better person, and I’m myself, because of all of you.

Tessa Maurer
was born in Los Angeles, California in the august of 1992. It took her twelve years to find the worlds inside of books, but it took only a short year for her to realize she could create her own.

So she did, and she hasn’t stopped yet.

The Toxic Children
is her first published work, but she has written over half a million words of fiction since the age of 13. She has a lot more to tell.

TessaMaurer.com