Authors: Cammie McGovern

Say What You Will (23 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

C
OUNTLESS THANKS TO MY
dearest early readers: Mike Floquet, Melinda Reid, Monty McGovern, Elizabeth McGovern, Valle Dwight, Carrie McGee, Katie and Bill McGovern, Charlie Floquet, and Matilda Curtis. All of them have contributed invaluable comments.

Thanks to Eric Simonoff, who read too many early drafts of stories with this character and, even so, remained enthusiastic. Thanks to Margaret Riley King, who found a home for the final draft and has done such a wonderful job ushering me into this world of young adult publishing. Also thanks to Laura Bonner for her enthusiastic support of this book early on.

A million thanks to Tara Weikum, who has edited this book with astonishing care and has made HarperCollins feel like a wonderful new home filled with bright people like Christina Colangelo, Chris Hernandez, Margot Wood, and Aubry Parks-Fried, under the guiding hands of Susan Katz and Kate Jackson. Across the seas, many thanks to Rachel Perry at Macmillan Books.

For help on all matters technical and otherwise, many thanks to Mat Lebowitz, Julian Concannon, and Peter Michael Smith. (As it happens, all great writers in their own right!)

And a special thanks to Danielle Kadinoff and her daughter, Irene Soulos, who read an early draft of this book and pointed me toward the ending that probably should have been there all along. . . .

I am very grateful to you all.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAMMIE McGOVERN
is the author of the adult novels
Neighborhood Watch
,
Eye Contact
, and
The Art of Seeing
. This is her first book for young adults. Cammie is also one of the founders of Whole Children, a resource center that runs after-school classes and programs for children with special needs. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children. You can visit Cammie online at www.cammiemcgovern.com.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013958343

ISBN 978-0-06-227110-5 (trade bdg.)

EPub Edition © MAY 2014 ISBN: 9780062271129

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