Sea Hearts (37 page)

Acknowledgements

I thank Keith Stevenson for inviting me to write a story for his novellanthology,
X6
(coeur de lion, 2009). ‘Sea-Hearts’ the novella was the result.

Dani Napton and Jill Grinberg, thank you for initial encouragement to extend the story, and Jodie Webster, Rosalind Price, Bella Pearson, Nancy Siscoe, Simon Mason and Linda Sargent, thank you for advice during the writing, which helped the novel find its final form.

MARGO LANAGAN
is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories which have garnered many awards, nominations and shortlistings.
Black Juice
was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, won two World Fantasy Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Red Spikes
won the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers, was a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year, a Horn Book Fanfare title, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her novel
Tender Morsels
won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.

Margo lives in Sydney. She maintains a blog at
www.amongamidwhile.blogspot.com
, and can be found on Twitter as @margolanagan.