Huge thanks to my agent extraordinaire, Dan Lazar, and the talented people at Writers House: Cecelia de la Campa, James Munro, and Genevieve Gagne-Hawes.
Thank you to my brilliant editor, Kristen Pettit, the ultimate seer, who saw this book the way I’d intended to write it and gave it direction and life. And thank you to the talented people at HarperTeen: production editor—Kathryn Silsand; designer—Jenna Stempel; cover artist—Si Scott; publicist—Gina Rizzo; marketing director—Bess Braswell; marketing assistant—Tyler Breitfeller; and Elizabeth Lynch.
Thank you to all the folks at SCBWI. I met my agent at the 2014 Winter Conference in New York organized by Stephen Mooser and Lin Oliver—thank you! Joining SCBWI was the first and best thing I ever did as a writer.
Thank you to my first writers’ group—Debbie Levy, Jon Skovron, Pam Bachorz, and Adam Meyer for critiques and friendship. And my new writers’ group—Kathy MacMillan, Lisa McShane, Kate Bradley-Ferrall, and Meg Eden Kuyatt—we’re on this journey together now.
Thank you to Lois Szymanski and Laura Backes for your help with early edits. Thanks to Gloria Kempton for her Finish Your Novel course and my online classmates, including Donna Matney, for early critiques.
Thanks to Regina Brooks for selecting The Tombs as a finalist in her Novel Discovery Contest.
I’m so happy to be a part of the writing community. Thanks to the Electric Eighteens, Binders Full of YA Writers, the Fighting Bookworms, Writer’s House Army, an Alliance of Young Adult Writers, and YA Book Central for doing the awesome cover reveal.
Thank you to Mike Dooley, better known as the Universe, for your everyday insights.
Thanks to Erika Satlof for her early website development and continuing graphic design skills. Thanks to Tami Mensh for being my accountability partner, social media helper, and marketing brainstormer. Thanks to all the people who read parts of this book or gave me bookish advice—Tom Schaumberg; Dave, Laurie, Zach and Kyra Flyer; Jordan Janis; Stephen Mazer; Justin and Jordan Mensh; Kim Weinberg; and P. J. Yerman. A big, heartfelt thank-you to all my incredible friends—you’ve been part of this entire process; I’m truly blessed to have you in my life.
Last but not least, thanks to my future readers, especially my nieces and nephews—Terry and Archie; Madison and Peyton; Parker and Nate; and Mackenzie and Braden—yes Terry, that includes you.
About the Author
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DEBORAH SCHAUMBERG was born in Brooklyn, not far from where The Tombs takes place. She grew up renovating dilapidated old houses with her family. She and her father would walk the rooms, floor by floor, making up stories about the inhabitants that were filled with dark secrets, monsters, and, of course, ghosts. Deborah is a writer and an artist whose work always has an element of fantasy to it, and since she also studied architecture, settings are equally important. It was on a trek to the Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal that she imagined a girl with the ability to see energy, and the seed of The Tombs was planted. She collects old bottles, and her favorite holiday is, you guessed it, Halloween. Deborah lives with her family and two dogs in Maryland, just outside DC. Visit her on the web at www.deborahschaumberg.com.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017938999
Digital Edition FEBRUARY 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-265646-9
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-265644-5
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