I kiss her like no one’s watching, because who cares if they are? Tonight, the story isn’t about anyone else.
Tonight, the story is us.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you so, so much to my editor, Nicole Frail, for believing in and loving this book. Thanks as well to Emily Shields, and the rest of the Sky Pony team for your hard work.
As always, thanks to my agent Kate Testerman for your tireless optimism!
Thanks to early readers and cheerleaders: Christie Baugher, Jen Gaska, Jasmine Guillory, Riley Silverman, Sarah Skilton, and Eliza Tiernan. Thanks for everyone who participated in burger research, especially Suzanne Casamento and Marisa Reichardt. Thanks to Jessie Weinberg for cool art! Thanks to Audrey DuBiel and everyone at Audrey K Boutique for all the shop talk! Thank you to my local crew of L.A. YA writers for their friendship and support, including—but not limited to because I know I’ll leave someone important out—Robin Benway, Kayla Cagan, Heather Cocks, Charlotte Huang, Jeff Garvin, Maurene Goo, Aditi Khorana, Kathy Kottaras, Gretchen McNeil, Nicole Maggi, Morgan Matson, Jessica Morgan, Isabel Quintero, Lilliam Rivera, and Zan Romanoff. Thank you to the Fight Me Club for the venting and the wisdom. Thanks to my mom, Pat Spalding, for all her support.
And to all the girls who worry they take up too much space: you don’t.
