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  61. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  62. ABOUT THE AUTHORS

First, it was our agents, Russ Galen, Juliet Mushens, and Heather Baror, who supported our furious ladies in space and put them in front of publishers around the world. Two of those publishers included the magnificent teams at DAW Books in the US and Gollancz in the UK. Rachel Winterbottom, Betsy Wollheim, and Leah Spann formed the tremendous editorial team for this book, pushing and inspiring both of us into making this story bigger, better, and more badass. Shoutout to Richard Shealy, our eagle-eyed copyeditor, who saved us from a few embarrassing passages. We’re so grateful for the marketing and publicity teams at both DAW and Gollancz for getting this book out to our readers! Especially Will O’Mullane at Gollancz, and Alexis Nixon and Jessica Plummer at DAW.

Moral support is so important while drafting, so we’d like to give a massive thanks to our mutual friends Hannah Kaner and Julia Ember for reading and cheering us on at every stage.

Laura would additionally like to thank her mother, Sally Baxter, and her husband, Craig Lam, as ever, for their support. To the Ladies of Literary License and the Asshole Writing Club, and all her friends who deal with her whinging about writing with relative good grace. To the Edinburgh Napier Creative Writing MA, both colleagues and students.

Elizabeth would first like to thank her husband, Mr. May: come give me a hug when you read this! And as always, to Tess Sharpe, who is the most inspiring, brilliant friend and one of the best writers she knows.

She also has a lot of people she’d like to thank for supporting her back in 2018 during a really rough health scare, but especially: Todd DeDecker, Raoul Borges, Clara Lee, Matt Miller, William Mauritzen, Michael Grunert, Morgan Folsom, Kendra Floyd, Michael Weatherford, James Holland, James White, Maja Baek, Alek Dembowski, Kendra Hoffman, Michael Gates, Rob Meijer, Enrique Robles, Aneli Aguillon, Susan Davis, Tracy Robinson, Sean Carroll, Jo Henn, John Scalzi, Larissa O’Brien, Kaitlin McCaw, Noah Richards, Allen Clark, D Franklin, Paul Kremer, Rebecca Zanzig, Alexandra Bracken, Parris P McBride-Martin, the wonderful people on the SFWA EMF Committee, and especially Cat Rambo. Thank you, every last one of you—including those not listed here—for your immense kindness. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Lastly, we would both like to thank you, readers, for stepping into our universe and following the Seven Devils Smash the Patriarchy In Space.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Elizabeth May is the author of the YA fantasy trilogy The Falconer and short fiction published in the anthology Toil & Trouble. She was born and raised in California before moving to Scotland, where she earned her PhD at the University of St Andrews.