Thanks, as always, to my agent, Merrilee Heifetz, for her scary-amazing advice and advocacy. Rebecca Eskildsen, you are unboolievable! Thanks for letting me haunt your inbox and keeping me on track.
And finally, thank you to the many pumpkin-spice-scented candles that sacrificed their lives so that these books could be written in the dead of summer, surrounded by cacti.
For Susan Dennard –
a true witch with words
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