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First and foremost, I dedicate this book to Stephanie Novak, because I promised. Thank you for being the best preschool teacher I could have ever hoped for.

To Karen Sciance—thank you for both encouraging my interest in the liberal arts and indulging my addiction to typewriters. I love you, Mom.

To Morgan Hagan, Christine Brown, and Cain Barth, thank you for not throwing me out of the townhouse while I was working on the first draft of this novel. Typewriters are not quiet and I don't remember you ever knocking on my door with a noise complaint, so thank you for being either tolerant or deaf. (Maybe the walls and floors were just that thick; if so, thank you to whoever built the townhouses in V3 at VWC.)

To the NaNos of Hampton Roads, especially Robin, Kara, Izzy, Gabe, Martha, Moni, Tanya, Amy, and Ricechex. You guys are the most amazingly supportive people ever. I am so blessed to be part of this region and so thankful to know you. Have fun stormin' da castle.

To Sarah, Maz, Nicole, and Tash, my internet friends who emerged from behind the screen names and became real, thank you for still thinking I'm cool even after you found out that I am actually a colossal dork.

To Celia Rees, thank you for writing Witch Child at just the right time for me to pick it up, and for writing such compelling fiction that I sought out any of your other books that I could get my greedy little hands on, resulting in me reading Pirates!, which was really the starting point for this book. (Also, thank you to Rhys Ford for showing me that I can totally dedicate a book to famous people I've never actually interacted with who nevertheless had an influence on my writing in some way.)

And finally, last but not least, to my beloved sisters of the Epsilon Sigma chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma. LITP.