Love on a Midsummer Night (Shakespeare in Love #2) (24 page)

As always, in the creation of a novel, there are many people to thank. I must begin with the amazing editing team at Sourcebooks Casablanca, Leah Hultenschmidt, Aubrey Poole, Kimberly Manley, the marketing team, the publicity team, especially Beth Pehlke. To say that these people made the book infinitely better is utterly true, and yet the words fall short.

I also thank Margaret O’Connor, who has been with me since the beginning of this journey, when she took
The
Queen’s Pawn
in hand and helped me make it what it became. Here’s to more storytelling, in more foreign lands, and to telling the best stories we know how to tell.

And as always, I must thank my family, my mother, Karen, my father, Carl, my brother, Barry, for their unending and unwavering support. Language falls short once again, and I can only hope that the inadequate words “thank you” are enough.

My early readers are also my friends… many thanks to Laura Creasy and LaDonna Bollinger, who give their time and their attention to all my novels in their early stages and who help make them shine. Thank you to my beloved friends who stand behind me and put up with me, even when I am delving into yet another rewrite. Marianne Nubel, Amy Pierce, Troy Pierce, Vena Miller, Heather Wilson, Susan Randall, may you be blessed a thousandfold, as much as you have blessed me.

And thank you to my Facebook and Twitter friends, and to all the people who read this book. Without you, I would be nowhere, telling stories in the dark.

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After years of acting in Shakespeare’s plays, Christy English is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England. When she isn’t acting, roller skating, or chasing the Muse, Christy writes romantic novels (
How
To
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A
Willful
Wife
,
The
Queen’s Pawn
,
To
Be
Queen
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