M or F? (30 page)

Many people have asked me what it's like to write a book with someone else. The answer is that it's a huge pleasure, as long as that someone else is Lisa Papademetriou. Working with her was like finding a room in my brain I never knew was there. Meanwhile, we had two fairy god-mothers at Razorbill, in Kristen Pettit and Liesa Abrams, who make me want to put quotation marks around the “work” that this whole thing was. Thanks also to the Friday night gang at Outright Vermont and the Champlain Valley Union High School GSA for their time and opinions. And, lastly—and always—thank you to Jonathan Radigan and Laura Wasserman, for being my real-life M and F.