Acknowledgments
First and foremost, a big gigantic thank you to Jodi Warshaw. Your interest in Party Girl was massively flattering, but it meant absolutely everything to me that you took a chance on Max’s story after reading only twenty pages. Thank you for trusting me to finish it. Thanks too for the title; Sweet Girl is so good that I’m only disappointed I didn’t come up with it myself!
Immense gratitude to Eryn Kalavsky, who I’m still convinced is a gift sent directly from God. Thank you for talking me through a thousand possible plot points and for reading all eighty-three drafts of this book. Thank you for Saturday morning runs and follow-up motivational text messages encouraging me to keep at it. I am truly grateful for your friendship.
Shout out to Susanna Kearsley for betting/daring me to finish this manuscript by Labor Day, mostly because you knew I needed a deadline. Thanks again. Your next vodka rocks sans garnish is on me.
Thank you to Lisa Olin and the amazing team at Cake Monkey (literally the greatest bakery in Los Angeles!) for letting me hang out in your kitchen, be inspired by your flavor combinations, and ask you weird questions about pastries. Massive appreciation to chef Elizabeth Belkind. I didn’t even know Joey was a character until you walked in and inspired her! Any pastry/kitchen/chef/food mistakes are mine alone.
Thank you to Josh Jackson at Arbor Exchange for showing me your workshop and sharing your massive knowledge of furniture design. I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you about the whole “it would be unsafe to build furniture while shirtless” thing. Taylor’s abs didn’t give me a choice.
Thank you to Cynthia Lavers, who once again answered all my medical questions with the patience of Job. Any mistakes are mine alone.
Last but never least, thank you to my Lamb, Dave Hollis, for your grace and understanding while I finished this book. Thank you for listening to me work out the story over many sushi dates and for allowing me to read you my favorite lines. You always laugh in the right places. This story is about two friends falling in love, and I’m writing from experience because I’ve fallen in love with my best friend again and again.
About the Author
Rachel Hollis founded the LA-based event-planning firm Chic Events at only twenty-one. Six years later Inc. magazine named her one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30. She went on to turn Chic into the extremely popular lifestyle website TheChicSite.com, where readers log in daily for the tips and tricks she’s acquired after years of planning fancy parties for celebrities. She has designed and produced fabulous events for many of Hollywood’s elite, including Bradley Cooper, Al Gore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ivanka Trump, Rashida Jones, Jaime King, Sara Rue, and Cuba Gooding, Jr., just to name a few.
Rachel moved to Los Angeles to go to college and promptly met a boy named David, who was as handsome as he was funny. First she made that boy her best friend, and then she made him her husband. Eleven years later they have three equally handsome and hilarious little boys named Jackson, Sawyer, and Ford. They live in LA, where they spend their time doing super-cool and sexy things, such as going to soccer practice and hitting up any restaurant where kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entrée.
Take this friendship to the next level by hitting up Rachel on any of the websites below. She’s so excited to be an author that she’d probably pee her pants if you actually brought it up on social media!
Twitter: @msrachelhollis
Facebook: /msrachelhollis
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