Minders

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe enormous thanks to all my friends and family for being so understanding when I disappear for weeks at a time in writer’s jail, surfacing only to gulp coffee and snarl. Super special thank you’s go to Meg Cabot, Benjamin Egnatz, Sigmund Freud, Susan Ginsburg, Peter Jaffe, Rebecca Kilman, Jaques Lacan, Nespresso, pizza, Laura Rosenbury, Santa, Ben Schrank, Georges Seurat, Carlyle Stewart, and Jennifer Sturman; without your support and guidance, I would have long gone out of my mind.

Susan Ginsburg’s mixture of wisdom, kindness, intelligence, and generosity continues to dazzle, inspire, and fill me with wonder. She is a marvel. I don’t know how I got lucky enough to have her as my agent, but I am grateful in a hundred ways every single day.

Rebecca Kilman and Ben Schrank, my braintrust at Razorbill, went above, beyond, through, and around the call of duty for this book. What’s good in it is theirs; the flaws are mine.