My Lady Jane (35 page)

Authors: Cynthia Hand

Acknowledgments

Hi! Lady Janies here. This is the part where we're supposed to tip our hats to all the wonderful people who helped make this book into what it is, but there are three of us and we each have an extensive support team, so we'll try to be brief (ha-ha). After all, you just read a five-hundred-page book. You're tired. So are we.

Here's a (totally incomplete) list of people we think are pretty awesome:

First off, our readers, both old and new. Every time we mentioned writing a book about Lady Jane Grey (a comedy?!), you always responded with such enthusiasm. It made the idea seem a little less crazy and a little more doable. Thanks for that. You rock.

Our agents, of course: Katherine Fausset, Lauren MacLeod, and Michael Bourret. “The three of us want to write a book
together” was probably the most logistically nightmarish thing you've ever heard us say, but you ran with it. Thank you for your unwavering belief in us and our funny little story.

Our fantastic editors, Erica Sussman and Stephanie Stein, who just
got
this book from the very beginningâthe humor, the characters, the playfulness in the telling. One of the best parts of writing
MLJ
was getting to make you laugh. Also, thanks to Kristin Rens and Laurel Symonds for not minding when Brodi and Jodi ran off to play with a different book for a little while.

Our publicist, Rosanne Romanello, who read this book so quickly we got whiplash. Pterodactyl Eâians are totally a thing.

Our jacket designer, Jenna Stempel, for not killing us for how picky we were this time around, and for giving us a jacket with pearls and lace and Jane looking mischievous.

Our families, for their patience and support while we ran off for weeks at a time to write and play in England. (That's Jeff for Jodi; John, Will, and Maddie for Cynthia; and Carter and Beckham for Brodi.)

Our pets: Todd and Katniss and Kippy and Walter Fishop III and Stella and Frank and Pidge and Jewels and Fred the Pigeon we found on our balcony in London, who may or may not be a girl. You're our Eâian inspiration.

And the yeoman at the Tower of London who talked to us about Jane and ran up Beauchamp Tower to make sure we saw both places where Guildford had carved Jane's name.

And that's it. We'll stop now. Bye.

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About the Authors

Courtesy of the authors

THE LADY JANIES
are made up of
BRODI ASHTON,
author of the Everneath series and
Diplomatic Immunity
;
CYNTHIA HAND,
New York Times
bestselling author of the Unearthly series and
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
; and
JODI MEADOWS,
author of the Incarnate and Orphan Queen series. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together. Between the three of them they've written thirteen published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems, but this is the first time they've taken a stab at writing a book together. They're friends. They're writers. They're fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at
www.ladyjanies.com
.