In Her Skin(60)

Cristy Walsh trained her artistic eye on the renovation of my home so that I could write, and only write.

Jackson, Charlie, and Lila soothed my soul while I finished this novel. Lila, this is your book. There’s no better you than the you that you are, but you know that. Always know.

In Her Skin is, in fact, a novel about the danger of forgetting who you are. I have a husband who, in gently reminding me to get back to work, reminds who I am foremost: a writer. Gary, I love you.

Writers stand on other writers’ shoulders. Jolene is an homage to one of my favorite fictional characters, Shirley Jackson’s Merricat Blackwood. Merricat would say three times makes it so.

I thank you, I thank you, I thank you.