Don't Get Caught(80)

On occasion, I had to turn to the experts for their brilliance: Pat George is a grammar goddess; Kristi Stephens is a math nerd; Halie Limpert is a lacrosse beast; Matt MacNish is a query letter master; Aaron Roberts is a design guru; Whitney Ballentine is a photography wizard; and Amanda and Julie are Panera rock stars for sneaking me free coffee. Extra special thanks to Barbara and John Miller, who, among a million other things, graciously watched the kids when I needed extra writing time.

My students over the last twenty-one years have given me plenty of inspiration, laughs, and headaches. I expect a three-page review of this novel on my desk by Monday.

And finally, a special thanks to my oldest brother, Eric, who passed away before this was published. If he hadn’t let me read his books and listen to his albums when I was growing up, this novel wouldn’t exist. He never got a chance to read this, but I’d like to think he would’ve gotten a kick out of it.





About the Author

?Whitney Ballentine

Kurt Dinan has taught high school English for more than twenty-one years, and while he’s never pulled any of the pranks detailed in this novel, he was once almost arrested in college for blizzarding the campus with fliers promoting a fake concert. He lives and works in the suburbs of Cincinnati with his wife and his four children, whom he affectionately refers to as “the Crime Spree.” Don’t Get Caught is his first novel.