Panic

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To my editor, Rosemary Brosnan.

Thank you for your wisdom, support, and above all, friendship.

I would have given up on this book were it not for your encouragement.

Thank you for helping me become a better writer.

By the time you read this, it will have been almost four years since the publication of my first novel, Before I Fall. A lot has changed for me since 2010. In the past four years, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to travel the country, speaking with young and avid—even obsessive—readers. I’ve met the teachers and librarians who move the engines of these young minds, or who at least keep them well oiled. I’ve met with booksellers who have soldiered through years of economic uncertainty in order to continue serving their communities; with sixteen-year-old bloggers who function as the twenty-first-century equivalent of the ever-feared and much-revered cultural critic; with fans who have foisted my books on unsuspecting family members and friends. I’ve participated in animated conversations with people halfway around the world about what’s on our TBR piles, and I’ve discovered that reading communities are much the same in the Philippines as in Philadelphia, in London as in London, Ohio.

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