Get in Trouble: Stories

Acknowledgments

I wish I knew how to thank, properly, the following people. Thanks to my family: my mother, Annabel Link; my sister, Holly, and my brother, Ben; my father, Bill and my stepmother, Linda Link. Many thanks for their hospitality and encouragement to Gavin’s family — Eugene and Rosemary, the MacArthurs, the McClays, and the Grants. I owe Christopher Rowe and Gwenda Bond for their ghost stories. Richard Butner, Sycamore Hill, and the various Clarion workshops for Space! and Time! Kate Eltham and Robert Hoge. Cassandra Clare and Joshua Lewis for an enlightening discussion about evil pants. Fleur and David Whitaker for the use of their names. Ada Vassilovski and Peter Kramer and Jack Cheng and Barbara Gilly. Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Rees Brennan, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Libba Bray, Elka Cloke, and Sarah Smith for reading early drafts. Thanks to Sean for suggesting that I try to write a new kind of story. Thanks to Jessa Crispin for the astrological reading. Thanks to Peter Straub for his stories. Thanks to Ray Bradbury, whose work was the inspiration for the story “Two Houses.” Thanks to David Pritchard, Amanda Robinson, and Holly Rowland for conversations about television shows. Thanks to the doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists in the Baystate NICU, and at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and at the Franciscan Hospital for Children. Thanks to the all-seeing, all-knowing Holly Black, for her all-seeing eye, her writerly brain, and for rescuing me from holes that I have fallen into. Thanks to my translators, especially the marvelous Motoyuki Shibata and Debbie Eylon. Thanks to the Banff Centre for the Arts for providing a desk, some elk, a bear, and conversation. Thanks to the editors that I’ve had the good fortune to work with, among them Ellen Datlow, Rob Spillman, Brigid Hughes, Francis Bickmore, Stephanie Perkins, Gwenda Bond, Yuka Igarishi, and Deborah Noyes. Thanks to Taryn Fagerness. Thanks to Renée Zuckerbrot, who is the best agent in the world, and to Molly Bean, the best dachshund. Thanks to my fantastic editor, Noah Eaker, for his care, his insight, and his enthusiasm. Thanks to Caitlin McKenna, Susan Kamil, and the entire team at Random House. And finally: much love and many thanks to Gavin J. Grant and Ursula Grant. I wrote some stories for you.