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Chapters (51)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Map
  4. Dedication
  5. GENESIS INSTITUTE GUILDS
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  51. IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS

Thank you to the Salon: Rachel Rose, Genoveva Dimova, Katy Hays, Joel Dane, Meredith Adamo, Sandra Salsbury, Ahana Virdi, Amy Jackson, Cee Jordan, Jill Grun, Brooke Johnson, Mitchell Logue, Anna Makowska, and also Egg, Amber, and Ren. You folks have seriously midwifed me through the entire process of submission and debut. I have learned so much from every single one of you, and your friendship has been as much of a boon as your writing and publishing support.

Thank you to The Doctors, Ariel and Jill, for fielding all my random medical questions over the years with patience and enthusiasm. So many of those theoretical conversations have been woven into the fabric of this story.

Thank you to the many friends and fellow authors who have done things large and small that made all the difference. I cannot possibly list you all here, but know that I deeply appreciate every one of you. To name only a few: Thank you to Katy Hays, Brigid Kemmerer, Genoveva Dimova, Shea Ernshaw, and Ashley Shuttleworth for your gorgeous blurbs! And to Crystal Seitz, in you having done this all right before me, you truly acted as my headlights, helping me navigate this process with the wisdom of your experience. To my many beta readers who gave of their time and helped me polish this book at varying stages, I could never have gotten to this point without you. Special thanks to Madison Story––your enthusiasm for my plot and characters fueled me through many bouts of impostor syndrome. I can’t wait to see your stories on shelves one day soon. (I tried to find the right Taylor Swift reference for this occasion, but it’s probably best that I couldn’t as this is getting too long, and this time I don’t have you to show me what to chop.) Thank you also to Leah Enowitz for coming with me to research the Cloisters, helping me with structural sketches, and also for being a hype-woman extraordinaire. (It brings me so much joy that one of your designs made it onto my map.)

Thank you to all of the writers on the internet who selflessly provide valuable resources for writers like me, and to all the various online communities and discord servers I’ve benefited from over the years. Special shoutout to OLUF, authortube, and r/pubtips. Also to the random girl on YouTube who said if you don’t sit down and write, it won’t get written. You were right.