Don't Fail Me Now (25 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my wonderful editor, Jessica Almon, whose patience, humor, and creativity saved me many times throughout the writing process—and whose glasses I covet to a degree that is possibly not healthy. The entire staff at Razorbill, most especially Ben Schrank and Casey McIntyre, also earn my undying gratitude. Your enthusiasm, support, and incredible warmth mean the world to me, and unless you tell me to stop I will continue to profess my love awkwardly every time I see you in person. Anthony Elder designed a cover that surpassed my wildest dreams, so every time you look at the front of this book, you should give him an air high five.

As always, I am indebted to my crackerjack agent (and favorite coffee date) Brettne Bloom, who is my champion by every definition of the word, and who gently encourages me to occasionally pause my
Broad City
marathons to write words down on paper.

Additional thanks go out to everyone who made the writing of this book less lonesome and/or scary: to the Hungry Ghost Coffee Bar and Café on Flatbush and 6th Avenue, whose delicious lattes and baked goods fueled many a writing session, and whose music never sucked; to the village of sitters—Willow Westwood, Phoebe Smith, Cailin Smith, my parents, and my sister Zoe—who took care of my child while I ran off to become the cliché that is the tortured writer pounding the aforementioned lattes in the aforementioned coffee shop; to PO1 Charles Horwitz of the Montgomery County Police
Department and Ilana Harwayne-Gidansky, MD, who kindly offered their professional expertise regarding police procedure and hypoglycemia, respectively (if anything is factually inaccurate, it's due to the creative license I took with their sage and patient counsel); and to my dear friends and family, who inexplicably continue to love, encourage, and feed me regardless of how disheveled and/or cranky I appear in their presence while on a deadline.

Finally, as ever, I am grateful to my husband, Jeff, for his love and support—especially his fortitude in the face of the emotional hurricane that is being married to a perfectionistic writer—and to my son, Sam, who is quite simply the best person I know. In the immortal words of '90s Canadian heartthrob Bryan Adams, everything I do, I do it for
you.

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