Authors: Colleen Clayton
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Girls & Women, #Love & Romance, #Social Issues, #Dating & Sex, #Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, #Sexual Abuse, #Juvenile Fiction / Girls - Women, #Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, #Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues - Sexual Abuse, #Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues - Dating & Sex, #Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
What Happens Next (33 page)
Thanks also to my thesis advisor, mentor, and good friend, Christopher Barzak, who leads the way for all of us living and writing in Youngstown. I’d like to thank the academic community at Youngstown State University, specifically Dr. Gary Salvner, Dr. Rebecca Barnhouse, Dr. Patricia Hauschildt, and Terry Benton, who all believe in the importance of writing for and about young people. Also, big thanks to Noelle Bowles, Reginald McKnight, and Karen Boyle, who all saw this story in its earliest stages and encouraged me to keep going. Thanks to my awesome writing group, Invisible Ink, which includes my partner in crime, Kelly Bancroft, as well as James Hain, Annie Murray, Christopher Lettera, and Mindi Kirchner-Greenway. Thank you to my other supporters: Gabrielle Mullins, Bob Reynolds, Alyssa Clayton, Jo Ann Hylton, Victoria Dippolito, Caitlyn Ryan, Candace Shives, Christina Meeker, Christine Rasey, Lisa Squiric, Maegan Riley, Jess Nash, Joe Alesnik, Renate Prescott, Bob Pope, Mack Hassler, Jill Sommer, Kim Zander, Hollie Slusarczyk, Traci Purdum, and the Znidarsic Ladies: Marlene, Lynnette, and Melissa.
I want to acknowledge the musicians mentioned in this novel, especially the lovely Fiona Apple. I cannot imagine a world without her music in it. For over fifteen years, she has provided me with a personal sound-track for meaningful living, and for that I am ever grateful.
Lastly, I want to thank the city of Lakewood, Ohio, and its schools for providing me with such a rich landscape in which to set this story…. I may have fudged some of the details, but hopefully I captured the heart of your wonderful city. And more broadly, I’d like to thank the cities of Cleveland and Youngstown. I’m a rust belt girl through and through and am so utterly proud to call these places my home.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by Colleen Clayton
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