Pattern Behavior by Natalie Kossar

Author:Natalie Kossar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

* A cat-sized scarf, designed to be worn by cats.

Thanks first to one hundred Nicoles;

To Nicole Tourtelot, my amazing agent at DeFiore and Company, who is sharp and cool and always knows exactly what to say. She has permission to speak on my behalf even when I am very dead.

I know what a literary agent is, Nicole.

Thanks to Nicole Chung, Nicole Cliffe, and Mallory Ortberg for being the first to agree to publish me on their brilliant website, www.the-toast.net, which is now defunct by total coincidence.

Thanks to my editor Jennifer Kasius from Running Press for taking a chance on me. And to my entire team at Running Press, for their enthusiasm and kindness. Thank you all for your patience with my technological incompetencies, which are many.

Thanks to Janet Wolfe, Stacey Long, and Meg McDonald at the McCalls Pattern Company, for agreeing to partner with me, for accommodating my research, and for making sure I wasn’t locked in the closet during the fire drill.

Several people leapt at the opportunity to help me during research; Tamara Nolte graciously hosted me in Brooklyn. Maia Wynn was my dog’s handmaiden and is a top-notch cohabitator. Leonard Madrid and Stephanie Graner both gave me scanners to use, and I only broke one (sorry Stef). Jayme Swalby drove me to the airport and also hit me with her car.

Thanks to my attorneys, Josiah Jenkins and Michael Powalisz, who’ve had my back from the beginning, and let me abuse attorney-client privilege as an excuse to talk about relationships.

Thanks to the drunken misfit weirdos in the Chicago improv/sketch community between 2006 and 2016. You developed, supported, and amplified a voice I knew existed but was afraid to use. You are my heart.

M. Molly Backes (@mollybackes) not only forged a path, but installed lights and directions along the way. She was a tireless cheerleader and validator, and I would not have made it without her.

Sarah Armstrong (@oohsarahcuda) came out of nowhere and supported me in all of the right ways. If you’re working on a project—I’m telling you—you want her on it.

Robin Babb (@cixxxous) is an outstanding friend and editor (frienditor?). Thanks for the pink 100s.

Finally, my unending thanks to Alex Garday, Nathan Jansen, Eric Lindberg, Eric Muller, Leslie Nesbit, Robert Perez, Nick Semar, and Sean Sullivan, who are my muses.

And to Eileen Backes, Megan Backes, Katie Dufresne, Lisa Linke, and Jessie Stegner, who are my solid ground.

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