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My grateful thanks to General Wendy, as ever, for keeping track of all the details, murder victims, and various things Ed might or might not have been knitting at any given moment.
I am indebted to May Peterson’s thoughtful comments regarding identity, controversy, and, uh, grammar, though I don’t really understand what she’s talking about with the grammar stuff.
Lucky writers have friends who volunteer to read and give feedback. Alexis Hall took a spin through this book at a crucial moment and pointed out a matter of empathy, and also a matter of wedding dresses. JR Gray dropped everything to read this and offer a few significant clarifications (and a note on the variety of vegan cheese). This business would not be nearly as fun without my fellow scribblers. My thanks. Let me know when I can return the favor, lads.
Anyone who wants to read the book Alisha references while camping, in which the main character goes to sleep in his tent and wakes up in his tent . . . in quicksand, look no further than The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Far more seriously, Paloma Santiago Ortiz, the young girl whose murder haunted Joe Rodriguez and his contemporaries, is a fictional character. The idea of her, of a young girl whose murder was brushed off, was inspired by two real-life cases of young girls who galvanized the public and consumed the local media.
Real-life young white girls.
Amber Swartz Garcia disappeared while jumping rope in front of her house in Pinole, California, in 1988. Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma, California, in 1993. Both cases inspired obsessive searches, constant television attention, and even now the Google hits are eager to tell me all about them. I wanted Joe’s personal obsession, like Ed’s, to be about someone whose story wouldn’t be told otherwise. Someone whose death had been a footnote, whose life could not be fruitfully googled twenty-five years later.
Some of us were born to tell those stories, to honor the people whom others forget.
Queers of La Vista
The Butch and the Beautiful
One Life to Lose
As La Vista Turns
Scientific Method Universe
Catalysts
Unexpected Gifts
Take Three Breaths
Breaking Down
Roller Coasters
The Boyfriends Tie the Knot
The Honeymoon
Extremes
The New Born Year
Threshold of the Year
Surrender the Past
The Library, Volume 1
Fairy Tales
The Spinner, the Shepherd, and the Leading Man
The Real Life Build
Take the Leap
The Home Series
Going Home
Home Free
Close to Home
Home for the Holidays
Little Red and the Big Bad
Serial One
Serial Two
The Erotic Gym: Training Mac
The Ghost in the Penthouse
Kris Ripper lives in the great state of California and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kris shares a converted garage with a toddler, can do two pull-ups in a row, and can write backwards. (No, really.) Kris is genderqueer and prefers the z-based pronouns because they’re freaking sweet. Ze has been writing fiction since ze learned how to write, and boring zir stuffed animals with stories long before that.
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