Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want but Won't Be Getting
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So my final piece of fatherly advice, Sonny and Natalia, is to have kids and love them as much as I love you.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to everyone at Dey Street/HarperCollins who told me I should write yet another book that no one in my family will read. This includes Lynn Grady, Sean Newcott, Mandy Kain, Heidi Richter, Shelby Peak and Paula Szafranski.
I should also thank the folks who handle all the business side of the book thing for me—James “Babydoll” Dixon, my agent, Dan Strone, my literary agent, and Dan Bodansky. I’d also like to tip my hat to Mike Lynch, the wizard behind the curtain for all of this.
Finally, to my editor, Carrie Thornton, whose complaints about her own kids brought a greater level of authenticity to my tales of woe.
About the Author
ADAM CAROLLA is the author of the New York Times bestsellers In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks, Not Taco Bell Material and President Me, as well as a radio and television host, comedian, and actor. Carolla is well known as the cohost of the syndicated radio and MTV show Loveline, as the cocreator and star of The Man Show and Crank Yankers, and as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and Celebrity Apprentice. He currently hosts Catch a Contractor and The Adam Carolla Show, which is the Guinness World Record holder for Most Downloaded Podcast and is available on iTunes and AdamCarolla.com.
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Credits
Cover design by Amanda Kain.
Cover photograph © by Kwaku Alston.
Author photograph © by Kwaku Alston.
All other photographs are courtesy of the author.
Illustrations are by Paul Matvienko-Sikar.
Copyright
DADDY, STOP TALKING! Copyright © 2015 by Adam Carolla. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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