For the launch of My Date From Hell, I invited a bunch of readers to join the Sassy Girl Swoony God Tourney. In exchange for an ARC of the book, they took part in all kinds of crazy challenges ranging from making playlists for Sophie, to casting the film, and deciding where Kai had originally kidnapped our girl. They tweeted and blogged and were just so insanely supportive of both this trilogy and myself. Thank you so much, darling participants! Without you and your excitement for this story, I would have had a much harder road to tread.
In the end, one lucky reader won the grand prize of excellent swag and getting to be a character in the final book. Thank you Jennifer @ Boricuan Bookworms. You graciously allowed me to use your name and aspects of your personality to create my lovely tattooing goddess. Everyone please check out her blog and show her the love.
Enormous thanks to Professor CW Marshall for his help with the Ancient Greek in the love ritual. Any mistakes are my own.
Elissa, Siobhan, and Adam, what can I say? You all encouraged my madness and then went above and beyond to make the book better. Sophie and I both were lucky to have you!
Every once in a while, I remember to look up from my screen and when I do, I find a family that surpasses anything my wildest fantasies could ever have dreamed up.
My darling husband Loreto, you remain my best friend. You make me laugh, throw me impromptu kitchen dance parties, bake me muffins, and still give me butterflies in my stomach at the thought of your kisses. Plus you check to make sure I’m still breathing when I’m lost in fictional mancandy. Really, how could a girl ask for more?
Finally, though, it comes down to this - my beautiful daughter Kiki. At ten years old, you imperiously demanded a story that you were allowed to read. And then, for the next three books and two years, told me with unflinching honesty exactly what you thought of them. You are my joy and my delight, and my favorite reader girl in all the universes, real and otherwise. So this one, like all the rest to come, is for you.