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Authors: Maggie Lehrman
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Thank you to my family, who hopefully will accept this book as my apology for the many years of leaping in front of the computer to block them from reading what I was writing; to my friends, who are smart, funny, and honestly let’s just say it: the best people in the world; to my agent, Tina Wexler, and my editor, Donna Bray, whose insights were smart and thoughtful and often simply
right
every step of the way; to everyone else at Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, including Alessandra Balzer, Kate Jackson, Jordan Brown, Viana Siniscalchi, Bethany Reis, Jenna Stempel, and Maya Packard; to all my colleagues and mentors at Abrams Books, including Susan Van Metre, Howard Reeves, and Tamar Brazis; to all the authors I’ve been lucky enough to work with over the years, who are generous and brilliant and inspiring; to my amazing classmates at Vermont College of Fine Arts, the Keepers of the Dancing Stars, and the incredible VCFA faculty, including my advisors A. M. Jenkins, Rita Williams-Garcia, Franny Billingsley, and Tim Wynne-Jones; to Jen Jude, who didn’t flinch when I asked her about arson and obstructing justice and statutes of limitations (and, I must add, all legal mistakes in the story are mine and mine alone); to Skila Brown, Amy Rose Capetta, Lindsay Eyre, Erin Hagar, Stefanie Lyons, Kristin
Sandoval, and Amy Zinn, who read early drafts and gave invaluable advice and encouragement; and finally, to my husband, Kyle Gilman, who, in addition to providing the daily love and support that helped me to write this book, also solved many plot problems before he even read a word. Who needs a hekamist when you have a Kyle?
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MAGGIE LEHRMAN
is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up outside of Chicago and went on to get a degree in English at Harvard, where she once received a grant to purchase young adult books the library didn’t have. During her decade of working as an editor of books for children, she also earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
The Cost of All Things
is her first book. You can visit her at
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014952613
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