Sarah Potter, you gave us readings that allowed us to trust and look forward to the possibility of selling this book. And then it happened. You’re pretty magical.
Thank you to our amazing families in New York and Victoria and everywhere between—putting up with us writing through reunions, dinners, obligations, conversations. You endured a lot for our fiction aspirations, even during the lean times, and most of you didn’t disown us, and we’re greatly grateful.
Thanks to our therapists! Wow, this gratitude can’t be overstated enough.
To Colleen and Michaela, early readers who gave invaluable feedback: Thank you for taking the time and the care to make sure this book was saying what we wanted it to say. To Clare: You have been outright magnificent throughout this whole process. To the copy editors, who fought their way through the constant tangle of our sometimes-it’s-the-British-spelling-sometimes-it’s-the-American-one inconsistencies: Thank you for your careful eyes and awe-worthy attention to detail.
To Tamar, our agent, who believed in us through years of rejections, as we got closer and closer and still, it seemed, further and further away from actually getting another book out there: Thank you for never giving up on us, for helping us with every idea fully baked and half-baked and not-baked-at-all, for championing our stories, and for keeping our hope fires alight when we were too weary to stoke them, when we were all burned out.
To Alice, our editor, who is literally perfect: Thank you for taking a chance on us, for getting excited with us, for showing us how to shape this book into the one we actually wanted to write. Obviously, without you, this book would not exist—not in its current form, its final form, the form it always wanted to take. You allowed us to mold this story into its truest self and, more than that, you showed us the way. You lit the darkened path. You mapped the maze. We’re your servants for life, and you will never be rid of us.
About the Authors
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JAIDA JONES & DANI BENNETT are married coauthors (without wanting to divorce yet) who live in Brooklyn with eight cats. Dani is from Victoria, British Columbia, and works freelance as an independent editor, proofreader, and plagiarism checker. Jaida is a native New Yorker. Their published work includes four novels from the Volstovic Cycle in addition to their many Twitter rants on intersectional feminism and the NYC subway system. Master of One is their young adult debut, and you can find them at www.jonesandbennett.com.
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MASTER OF ONE. Copyright © 2020 by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett. Map art © 2020 by Anka Lavriv. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-294147-3
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-294144-2
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