Drummer Girl (19 page)

acknowledgements

I can pick out a tune on a piano with one finger but don't actually play any musical instruments, except, once upon a time, the recorder. So many thanks to Kaleb Penner for answering all sorts of odd questions about being a drummer. Thanks, also, to Dymphny Dronyk for being my first reader, and for allowing me to glimpse the world of high school bands through her musical sons (though my band in no way resembles them)

This book is as you see it because of the dedication and hard work of all the wonderful people at Coteau Books –thank you to Nik, Susan, Amber, and everyone else who helped along the way. A special thank you to my editor, Laura Peetoom, for her keen insight and for throwing me a metaphoric lifeline when I needed it.

Finally, thanks to my husband, Michael, who encourages my daydreams and urges me to contine working at turning them into reality.

about the author

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Karen Bass honed her craft as a popular writer of speculative fan fiction. Since then her stories and articles have been published in local newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and nationally in
Winners' Circle Nine
and the
Canadian Writer's Journal.
She is the author of two previous YA novels,
Run Like Jäger
and the IPPY Gold Medal Award-winning
Summer of Fire.

A fourth-generation Albertan, Karen attended the University of Alberta, and obtained a psychology degree from the University of Victoria. She currently lives with her family in northwestern Alberta, where she recently retired from managing a public library to write full-time.