With all the carving and chiseling and adding of new things with each draft, ultimately I needed someone truly magical who could fix all the unwieldiness and bring this story to life. That person was Melissa Warten, editor extraordinaire and true magician. I had such high hopes for this story from the beginning, and you’ve absolutely taken it above and beyond. If this story is whole, if it breathes, it’s because of your sparkling wizardry. Thank you, thank you, and to the entire FSG team for making this story happen.

(And thanks to my magic feather. You know who you are.)

Thank you, also, to Brianne Johnson, Allie Levick, and the other fabulous magicians at Writers House. You brought this story to its perfect home and have always had my back. I would be stumbling through a magicless desert without you.

A wide-eyed, awestruck thank you to cover artist Alisa Coburn for somehow taking these two characters I’ve had in my head for so long and putting them so perfectly and magically in color. You are nothing less than an art alchemist.

SOMETHING GOLD

Which brings me to you, dear reader. You are my gold at the end of this Treasure Hunt. You might feel most like Ruth, or you might feel like Olivia. Either way, you are worth more than all the gold in the universe. The maker of this universe filled it mind-bogglingly full of treasures of all kinds, everywhere you look, and He treasures you, you specifically and individually, above it all. I do, too.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Allen has been published in The Evansville Review, Allegory, and on WritersDigest. She has an MFA from Brigham Young University. Like Libby in her novel What Stars are Made Of, Allen was born with Turner Syndrome. You can sign up for email updates here.

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