"Graceling" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cashore Kristin)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A debut novel is a true team effort. With all my heart, I would like to thank my sister Catherine (and the guys), always my first reader(s); my stupendous editor, Kathy Dawson; my agent, Faye Bender, who is a rock star; Liza Ketchum, who taught me to think like a novelist; Susan Bloom, Cathie Mercier, Kelly Hager, Jackie Home, Lisa Jahn-Clough, and everyone else who changed my life at Simmons College's marvelous Center for the Study of Children's Literature; my sister Dac, Dana Zachary, Deborah Kaplan, Joan Leonard, Mom, and Rebecca Rabinowitz, aka my fearless readers; Daniel Burbach, who offered loads of support; my uncle Dr. Walter Willihnganz, who answered a lot of silly medical questions with great patience; my uncles Alfio, Salvatore, and Michael Previtera, who answered a lot of even sillier questions about bows and arrows at the Previtera family Christmas party; and last, but far from least, both of my parents, for everything.

Kristin Cashore grew up in the northeast Pennsylvania countryside as the second of four sisters. She received a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, and she has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, a legal assistant, and a freelance writer. She has lived in many places (including Sydney, New York City, Boston, London, and Austin), and she currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida, where her daily activities include walking along the St. Johns River and counting pelicans on the dock.

Kristin Cashore's debut novel, Graceling, grew from her daydreams about a girl who possesses extraordinary powers – and who forms a friendship with a boy with whom she is insurmountably incompatible.