The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl (30 page)
To my always-excellent writing group – Jo Horsburgh, Benjamin Laird, Neen McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Ilka Tampke and Jacinda Woodhead – I couldn’t ask for a greater group of writing-and-occasionally-beer-drinking buddies.
Thanks and hugs to my family and friends for your support over the past year; my lovely cousins for listening to me prattle endlessly about comic books; and to Lucy and Ben for keeping me fed when I spent all my money on
Spider-man
s.
To Alex Clark for the amazing cover – your gorgeous, spunky Cinnamon Girl could have been plucked straight out of my head.
Special thanks to the fabulous staff at All Star Comics, Comics ‘R’ Us, Evil Empire Comics and Minotaur – cheers and thanks for the chats, and the helpful assistance and suggestions.
And lastly, a very special thank you to the lovely, amazing, passionate and all round wonderful young readers who I’ve had the pleasure of encountering on my travels – your enthusiasm, emails and letters, and general awesomeness have heartened even the most difficult of writing days.
Melissa Keil is a writer, children’s editor and compulsive book-buyer. She has lived in Minnesota, London and the Middle East, and currently resides in her home town of Melbourne. Her debut young adult novel,
Life in Outer Space
, was published in 2013 – the inaugural winner of the Ampersand Project, Hardie Grant Egmont’s initiative for debut authors.
Say hello at
www.melissakeil.com
or
www.facebook.com/MissMisch77
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The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
published in 2014 by
Hardie Grant Egmont
Ground Floor, Building 1, 658 Church Street
Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia
www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au
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eISBN 9781743582602
Text copyright © 2014 Melissa Keil
Illustration and design copyright © 2014 Hardie Grant Egmont
Cover illustration and design by Alex Clark
Text design by Kristy Lund-White
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