![]() Tell us more about Millie, who she is and where she’s at as the novel opens. I teetered there for a while with Millie, and then we fell headlong into the story. It all seems almost too good to be true, which is a very good place to start a story, on the cusp between the before and after. The first scene I imagined was the one in Chapter 3, where Millie finds herself in the gorgeous airiness of the Acostas’ house, babysitting for the very first time and enraptured by the importance of her circumstances. ![]() The art was made on a weighty piece of black linen, and I think it speaks to the heart and soul of this project, piercing darkness straight through with the abiding possibilities of love and light. And then-it’s true!-they partnered with my friend Kathie Sever, founder of Fort Lonesome, a chain-stitch embroidery studio in Austin, Texas, where we both live. Jill Turney, Amelia Mack and Angie Kang (the book’s designers and design fellow) conceived of the image-a mashup of stitchery and sorcery. In the book’s acknowledgments, you write that one of your best friends created the embroidery that serves as the cover image. Let’s start with this book’s striking cover. ![]() In her second middle grade novel, Liz Garton Scanlon beautifully depicts a middle schooler navigating an unspeakable tragedy. Twelve-year-old Millie is thrilled to work her first babysitting job, but her world turns upside down the morning after, when she learns that her four-month-old charge, Lola, has died of SIDS. ![]()
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