Liar & Spy (18 page)

Thanks

Thank you, talented, busy friends and family who gave your time to read my drafts, answer my questions, and share your magic: Randi Kish, Deborah Heiligman, Donna Freitas, Daphne Grab, Judy Blundell, Deborah Stead, David Levithan, and Karen Romano Young. Without your friendship, both my work and my life would be diminished.

Thank you, Caroline Meckler, Dana Carey, and Robert Warren, editors full of greatness.

Thank you, Kate Gartner and Yan Nascimbene, for making this book beautiful to me.

Thank you, Colleen Fellingham and Barbara Perris, for lending your wise minds and eagle eyes to this work.

Thank you, Joan DeMayo, Tracy Lerner, Adrienne Waintraub, Lisa Nadel, and Judith Haut, smart and fabulous women with the difficult job of getting books into the hands of real people.

Thank you, Megan Looney, Mary Van Akin, and Tamar Schwartz, for your insight, your energy, and your time.

Thank you, Chip Gibson, for your unflagging support and your irrepressible spirit.

Thank you, Faye Bender, my secret agent, for being wonderful.

Thank you, Wendy Lamb, my editor, my friend, and an extraordinary woman who makes dreams come true.

Rebecca Stead is the author of two previous novels,
First Light
and
When You Reach Me
, which was a
New York Times
bestseller and winner of the Newbery Medal and the
Boston Globe–Horn Book
Award for fiction. She lives in New York City with her family.