Crooked (29 page)
Authors: Austin Grossman
I’d like to thank the extraordinary team that took me through this writing process: my agent Luke Janklow and the indomitable Claire Dippel at Janklow and Nesbit and, on the publishing side, Josh Kendall, Wes Miller, Pam Brown, Ben Allen, Tracy Roe, Ruth Tross, and all the rest who first believed in this book and then hauled it across the finish line.
Austin Grossman is a video-game design consultant who has worked on such games as
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds; System Shock; Flight Unlimited; Trespasser: Jurassic Park; Clive Barker’s Undying; Deus Ex; Tomb Raider Legend; Epic Mickey;
and
Dishonored.
He is also the author of
You
and
Soon I Will Be Invincible,
which was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in
Granta,
the
Wall Street Journal,
and the
New York Times.
 | @austin_grossman |
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Soon I Will Be Invincible
You
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2015 by Austin Grossman
Author photograph by Marka Knight
Cover design by Lauren Harms
Cover photograph by Brian Gilbreath
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