Whiskey & Charlie (31 page)
Authors: Annabel Smith
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I would like to begin by thanking Georgia Richter and all the folks at Fremantle Press for helping
Whiskey and Charlie
to come into the world. I am hugely grateful to Shana Drehs for her enthusiasm about bringing the novel to a U.S. audience and to Anna Michels and the editorial team at Sourcebooks for their careful and sensitive editing and for being willing to preserve the Australianisms that give the novel its flavor. I am deeply indebted to my fellow writers Amanda Curtin and Robyn Mundy, who gave detailed and insightful advice on numerous drafts over a period of several years. My first draft “guinea pigs” were Swifty, Kathryn Porter (aka Little Katie Hardcore), Lucinda Pullinger, Jim Gill, and last but not least, my mumâthank you all for your feedback and encouragement. I am, as always, enormously grateful to Richard Rossiter, who told me things I needed to know but didn't want to hear, asked me some hard questions, including the memorable “Why is Charlie such a dickhead?” and who gave me the incredible gift of the time and space to finish my final draft in his magical writing loft. Finally, my gratitude goes to my amazing husband, Duckers, for his love and support.
I acknowledge the following sources for the quotes that appear herein:
“She was moist and trembling,” p. 25: Anaïs Nin,
Delta
of
Venus
(New York: Pocket Books, 1991).
“History is nothing,” p. 40: Milan Kundera,
The
Joke
(London: Faber & Faber, 1992).
“Hope is the thing with feathers,” p. 258: Emily Dickinson, “Hope,”
The
Poems
of
Emily
Dickinson
, ed. R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Photo by Justine Monk
Annabel Smith is the author of
A New Map of the Universe
and the interactive digital novel/app
The Ark
. She holds a PhD in writing and is on the editorial board at Margaret River Press. She lives in Perth, Australia, with her husband and son.
Check out her website:
annabelsmith.com
