Dhonielle Clayton gave me the name of the inn almost a decade ago, back when we were in a critique group together. Thank you all for the inspiration. Thank you also to Chelsea Youss and Rayhan Youss, Kate Compton, Alice Mackay, and Tova Volchek for helping me find the time to do all the work of writing and revising and traveling and all the other oddball tasks that go into bringing a Nagspeake tale to life (and for occasionally taking over when, say, a cake needs to be iced). And to Gus and the very special folks at Emphasis Restaurant, Coffee RX, and Cocoa Grinder in Bay Ridge, thank you for giving folks like me in the neighborhood such great places to get stuff done. But there wouldn’t be stuff to get done without the folks who heard me talk about this oddball book I wanted to write and thought, “Hey, that sounds like a fun project,” and then proceeded to handle the business end of things. So thank you always, always, always to Lynne Polvino for taking a chance on another leap into the Sovereign City of Nagspeake with me; to Jaime Zollars for another staggeringly beautiful cover and another bit of architecture I wish I could live in forever; to Nicole Wong for bringing the tales to life so fantastically; and to Sharismar Rodriguez and Celeste Knudsen for assembling it all into such a beautiful object. Thank you to Barry Goldblatt, Dana Spector, and especially Tina Dubois for managing all the stuff that makes this career possible. Tina, I still reread your in-flight email from Thanksgiving whenever any shred of worry starts to creep in. Thank you so, so much.
I have spent ten wonderful years working alongside the wonderful folks at McNally Jackson Books, and it’s hard to put into words how grateful I am to have been part of the family. Thank you to Sarah, Doug, Cristin, and all of my dear, dear friends. Thank you for letting me sling books with you. Thank you for all that you do. I am also hugely grateful to all the other wonderful bookstores, schools, and libraries who’ve helped my books find their readers over the years. Thank you for making me feel so welcome, and for all the work you do every day.
And to all the readers who’ve come back to Nagspeake and the Roaming World over and over to join me on these weird adventures, I simply can’t thank you enough. To share these tales with you has been a joy and a gift for me. Roam well, my friends, until we meet again.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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KATE MILFORD is the New York Times best-selling author of the Edgar Award–winning, National Book Award nominee Greenglass House, as well as Ghosts of Greenglass House, Bluecrowne, The Thief Knot, The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands, and The Left-Handed Fate. She is also a regular columnist for the Nagspeake Board of Tourism and Culture. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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