Victoria Aveyard - Glass Sword

Having now been published and officially in the living world of literature, I realize how expansive it is—and how scary it can be. Thank you so much to all the people who’ve made my transition from baby author to published author so smooth and easy. To the bloggers, vloggers, tweeters, readers, carrier pigeon-ers who continue to push Red Queen and now Glass Sword , thank you, thank you, thank you. To the fellow writers who are nothing but support, I’m so grateful for your friendship. I’d name names, but there’s too many of you, and honestly it feels like bragging to call you guys my friends. And once again, to Emma Theriault, who is greedy for RQ , generous with notes, and always willing to chat.

As is tradition, I will also thank a few things that are not people. Well, the first is a collection of people. To the New England Patriots. Last year I thanked you and you won the Super Bowl. Let’s keep that tradition going. Free Brady. To Wikipedia, the National Park Service, Scotland, Target, San Diego Comic-Con, the changing of the seasons, cashmere scarves, my excellent new printer, globes, coffee with too much cream, my Delta points, and brunch. And to my personal inspirations: Tolkien, Rowling, Martin, Spielberg, Lucas, Jackson, Bay. Yes, I said Michael Bay, get out of my face.

Nearly there. These are repeats, but they’re important, so if you’ve made it this far, you might as well read on. To Morgan. To Suzie. And again to my parents. This starts and ends with you.