Free to Fall
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Thank you also to Ryan Dobson, for coming up with the name “the Doubt” (gee, did I write any of this book myself?); to Brent Robida, for your consistent and complicated friendship but also for reading the very first iteration of this story (that forgotten TV script that AMC didn’t want) and for sending me Wendell Berry when I was stuck; to Bobbi Shiflett, for reading the first draft of this book in three days and single-handedly saving me from a black hole of self-doubt; and to Jordanna Fraiberg and Natalie Krinsky, for encouraging and inspiring me from across coffee shop tables as I wrote these pages and reminding me that this writing thing we do doesn’t have to be loners’ work.
These acknowledgments would not be complete without a huge, all caps THANK YOU to the fabulous Niki Castle, who read this book even faster than Bobbi did and said such nice things that I have to wonder if I can trust her. If anyone could convince me to move across the country, it’s you, lady. Just as long as you promise to supply me with pumpkin cookies and vinho verde rosé.
Last but certainly not least, to my family, for their unending support and love, and especially to my husband, daughter, and little peanut on the way, who will no longer be a peanut when this book hits shelves but an actual person. I’m excited about this book, but I’m way more excited about you, Lil’er Miller. May you and your sister always trust that whisper within.
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LAUREN MILLER is an entertainment lawyer and television writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids. Visit her online at www.laurenmillerwrites.com.
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Free to Fall
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miller, Lauren (Lauren McBrayer), 1980–
Free to fall / Lauren Miller. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: “In a near-future world where everyone is controlled by their smartphones, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn suddenly begins listening to the voice within—which kids are taught to ignore—and discovers a terrible plot at the heart of the corporation that makes the devices”— Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-219980-5 (hardback)
EPUB Edition MARCH 2014 ISBN 9780062199829
[1. Boarding schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Smartphones—Fiction. 4. Love—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M6227Fre 2014
2013047725
[Fic]—dc23
CIP
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