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  The Creators

  Laurie Faria Stolarz’s bestselling series started with Blue is for Nightmares and continued with White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance. She grew up in Salem, Massachusetts.

  Script art director Barbara Randall Kesel is a comic book writer and editor who has worked on staff at DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and CrossGen Comics. Her editorial credits include Hellboy, Star Wars, and Aliens.

  Artist Janina Görrissen studied the comic arts in Barcelona, Spain. Her work includes Kairi, a manga for French publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés (Humanoids). Black is for Beginnings is Janina’s first published project in the United States.

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  Black is for Beginnings © 2009 by Laurie Faria Stolarz.

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  First e-book edition © 2010

  E-book ISBN: 9780738721989

  Written by Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Adaptation by Barbara Randall Kesel

  Artwork by Janina Görrissen

  Letters by Scott O. Brown

  Cover design by Llewellyn art department

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  Acknowledgments

  First and foremost, I want to thank my former editor Megan Atwood, who, seven years ago, took a chance on my first novel, Blue is for Nightmares. I am forever indebted to your vision and enthusiasm for my work. Thanks also to Andrew Karre, who inspired me with the idea of writing a graphic novel.

  Thanks to my editor Brian Farrey, my agent Kathryn Green, Lee Nordling and Barbara Randall Kesel at The Pack, the entire Llewellyn Publications family, and especially to my readers—all of whom have made this project possible. It has certainly been a pleasure, and I am so very, truly grateful.

  For Andrew Karre,

  Janina Görrissen,

  and the BifN fans

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