The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor #1)(123)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


WRITING A NOVEL has always been my dream, and yet at times it felt like a near impossible task. I’m grateful to have had an incredible amount of support and assistance throughout this process.

First of all, huge thanks to the entire team at Alloy Entertainment. Joelle Hobeika, my intrepid, tireless, fearless editor: thank you for being my partner in crime from the very beginning. This book has benefitted from your encouragement and ideas in more ways than I could ever count. Josh Bank, the first person to hear my pitch on The Thousandth Floor: thank you for falling in love with it the way I did, and the countless hours you spent hammering out story beats with me. Sara Shandler, thank you for your energy, your encouragement, and your editorial insights. Les Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo, Maggie Cahill, and everyone else at the Alloy LA office, thanks for all your constant and enthusiastic support of The Thousandth Floor. Thanks also to Theo Guliadis, for your social media genius; Elaine Damasco, for your incredible vision and design work; Liz Dresner, for all your design talents; Romy Golan, for keeping us on schedule; Stephanie Abrams and Matt Bloomgarden, for managing more financial and deal spreadsheets than there are pages in this book; and Heather David, for somehow making the whole operation run smoothly despite all our efforts to the contrary.

I am so grateful to the wonderful team at HarperCollins, without whom this book would never have been possible. Emilia Rhodes: we’ve come a long way from the days when you and I edited vampire novels together. There is no one I would rather work on this project with. Thank you for believing in it, and in me. Jen Klonsky: thank you, thank you, thank you for your boundless enthusiasm and support throughout this process. Alice Jerman: I know firsthand what a difficult job it is assisting the editorial process, and I am so appreciative of all your help (especially all the last-minute edits you so patiently entered for me by hand!). Jenna Stempel: thank you for this lush, gorgeous, utterly perfect cover. Sarah Kaufman, Alison Klapthor, Alison Donalty, and the rest of the Harper design team: thank you for making this book look as beautiful as it does. Huge thanks as well to Elizabeth Ward and the rest of the Harper marketing team, and to Gina Rizzo and the publicity team, for your tireless and insanely creative efforts getting the word out about The Thousandth Floor.

To everyone at Rights People—Alexandra Devlin, Allison Hellegers, Caroline Hill-Trevor, Rachel Richardson, Alex Webb, Harim Yim, and Charles Nettleton—thank you for bringing The Thousandth Floor to so many places in the world. I couldn’t ask for a more generous, gracious, and truly wonderful team of foreign rights agents. I am lucky to have you, and don’t I know it!

To my friends and family, thank you all for your contributions to this work, and for putting up with me during its creation. Mom and Dad—I would never have gotten here without your unwavering support and confidence in me. John Ed and Lizzy, you have always been my inspiration, my cheerleaders, and my earliest fans. Thank you to my grandparents, especially Snake, for teaching me to read many years ago. You are dearly missed, and always will be.

Thanks also to the Field family, for housing me during more than one long writing weekend, with a special shout-out to Kiki, for driving me eight hours home from a wedding while I wrote the whole way in your front seat. And finally, of course, to Alex: thank you for your patience, your guacamole incentives, for talking about fictional teenagers far more than you ever bargained on, and for reading this novel every step of the way.