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Hello! Callie asked if I'd like to answer the question about the book's dedication (to Lisa Holton and JillEllyn Riley) and I said I'd be glad to. Here's what happened. When you write a book, you usually dedicate it to someone close to you, but often you try to dedicate it to someone who's close to you AND somehow connected to the book you've written (for example, my book "Girlfriend Material" is dedicated to my husband's parents not just because they're awesome but because they taught me about Cape Cod, which is where the book is set). When it came time to write the dedication, I told Callie she should decide who to dedicate it to since it's really HER story; I figured she'd pick her mom (for reasons that I guess are pretty obvious) or maybe even Amanda. But then she told me I should decide who to dedicate it to since I wrote it. We went back and forth until finally Callie had a brilliant idea: What if we dedicate the book to the people who brought us together to do this project?! Duh. Of course. So that's how we picked JillEllyn and Lisa. JillEllyn is the goddess who helped us edit our writing (like, she's the one who told us when we were kind of going off on a tangent or not making sense or even just splitting an infinitive or something like that). And Lisa is the fabulous woman who first heard about Amanda's going missing and thought it would be good for people to learn the story (most adults thought Callie, Hal and Nia were just being hysterical teenagers--big surprise). We're both really grateful to JillEllyn and Lisa for making Callie's story shine and for taking Amanda's disappearance seriously. Also, on a bit of a different subject, I am so impressed by how carefully everyone's reading "Invisible I" for clues. I've spent so much time combing the novel over, but you brought things to my attention that I'm definitely rethinking (what's with giving the old couple Callie's name--did she pick them because their house looks like Callie's, or is Callie the only one who noticed that)? Here's what I keep coming back to: WHO WROTE THAT NOTE TO AMANDA ON THE WALL OF THE CLUB? Remember when Callie and Hal found it? To me, it means that SOMEWHERE in Orion, SOMEONE else must be looking for Amanda. Who? And is the person working for good...or evil?