I’m beyond lucky to have the support of so many wonderful women. Sally Bergom and Caitlin Gutenberger, who shared their names, their animation expertise, and most importantly their witchy ways. My friends and colleagues, Zan Romanoff, Katie Cotugno, Maurene Goo, Sarah Enni, Robin Benway, Brandy Colbert, Margot Wood, Preeti Chhibber, and Victoria Ying. This is the best job in the world because I get to work alongside all of you.
Thank you, Emily, Rachel, and Jeannette, for being my favorite nieces and character namesakes.
Greg Bonsignore, you’re the only person I know who loves A Goofy Movie as much I do, and the only other person who would teach themselves the “I2I” dance. Love is the reason why.
There’s no family quite like mine and thank goodness for it. Thank you for always seeing me and loving what you saw.
Mom and Dad, thank you for putting books in my hands from the very beginning and always, always believing that I could do exactly what I set out to do. Bubbe, you gave me the gift of stubbornness and an unshakeable sense of self. Adam and Abra, thank you for being the willing (and sometimes unwilling) participants in all my early attempts at storytelling, from puppets to plays to short films. You made all this possible. Amy and Tim. Loving Sussmans isn’t easy, but it’s worth it, I hope. Keith, we miss you.
John. You are always my first reader, my forever champion, my whole heart. Teenage me could not dream of a love like yours, and adult me is beyond grateful for it.
Basil and Mozzarella. You’re dogs and you’re awesome.
And thank you, dear reader. It’s been a journey getting this story onto the page, and I’m so glad you’re here to greet it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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ELISSA SUSSMAN is the author of Stray and Burn. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, her MFA from Pacific University, and in a previous life managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures Imageworks. You can see her name in the credits of The Croods, Hotel Transylvania, The Princess and the Frog, and Tangled. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their rescue mutts, Basil and Mozzarella.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sussman, Elissa, author. | Jovellanos, Arielle, illustrator.
Title: Drawn that way / Elissa Sussman ; illustrations by Arielle Jovellanos.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021] | Audience: Ages 12 up. | Audience: Grades 10-12. | Summary: Seventeen-year-old Hayley Saffitz, a confident, ambitious, aspiring animation director, participates in her idol’s summer program but must risk her blossoming relationship with his son if she is to prove she is as talented as the boys.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020057258 | ISBN 9781534492974 (hardcover)
ISBN 9781534492981 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534492998 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Internship programs—Fiction. | Animation (Cinematography)—Fiction.
Sexism—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S965663 Dr 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020057258
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