My Roommate Is a Vampire(94)

My husband, Brian, deserves special recognition for his endless support of everything I do. Thank you, sweetheart, for smiling and nodding encouragingly all those times I asked you, “Do you think my book is good?” before you’d even had a chance to read it. Thank you to my mom for teaching me how to read all those years ago while doing Muppet voices; to my dad for his blintzies and pancakes on family vacations; to my brother, Gabe, for being a wonderful headshot photographer and Instagram tutor; and to my sister, Erica, for being the kindest person I know. And of course, the world’s biggest thank-you to my daughter, Allison, for being the sweetest teenager in the world (despite her not thinking I’m all that funny).

Finally, I want to give a special thank-you to my incredible online writing and fandom community. (You rats know who you are.) You encouraged me to keep going when I first tossed around ideas for this book on social media. You emailed me jokes that had me cackling in public, and you laughed at all the right places when this book was nothing but a tweet string and a prayer. To those of you who read this book in its true infancy—and to each of you who have read and given kind feedback on other stories I’ve shared over the past decade—it is no exaggeration to say I would not be here but for all those times you cheered me on. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Jenna