Thank you to everyone who understood the necessity of Georgia’s story and who worked so tirelessly, and who were so generous with their time and talents, to help me realize it.
I’m the Girl would not be the book it is without:
Sara Goodman
Faye Bender
Jennifer Enderlin and Eileen Rothschild
Vanessa Aguirre
Brant Janeway, Alexis Neuville, Rivka Holler, Jeff Dodes
Meghan Harrington, Tracey Guest, Mary Moates
Kerri Resnick, Kemi Mai, Olga Grlic, Michelle McMillian, Anna Gorovoy
Tom Thompson, Erik Platt, Dylan Helstein, Kim Ludlam, Britt Saghi, Lisa Shimabukuro
Taylor Armstrong, Jennifer Edwards, Tim Greco, Sofrina Hinton, Meg Medina, Holly Ruck, Rebecca Schmidt, Talia Sherer
Emily Day, Amanda Rountree, Samantha Slavin
Lauren Hougen, Lena Shekhter, Eric Meyer, Elizabeth Catalano, Chrisinda Lynch, Carolyn Telesca
All at Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books
The Macmillan Audio team, particularly Ally Demeter and Emily Dyer, and all at Macmillan Academic
All at Raincoast Books, particularly Fernanda Viveiros and Jamie Broadhurst
The Book Group
Susan, Marion, Megan, Jarrad, Cosima, River
David, Ken, Bob, Bruce, Lucy
Lori Thibert. Emily Hainsworth, Tiffany Schmidt. Somaiya Daud, Laurie Devore, Sarah Enni, Maurene Goo, Kate Hart, Isabel Kaufman, Michelle Krys, Amy Lukavics, Heather Marshall, Diya Mishra, Anna Prendella, Veronica Roth, Elisabeth Sanders, Nova Ren Suma, Kara Thomas, Kaitlin Ward. Whitney Crispell, Kim Hutt Mayhew, Baz Ramos, Samantha Seals, Meredith Galemore.
I’m grateful to Susan Summers, Megan Gunter, Diya Mishra, Anna Prendella, and Kara Thomas, for their invaluable insights at a critical juncture.
Special thanks:
All my family and friends
Michelle Cain, Meghan and Susanne Hopkins
The readers, booksellers, librarians, and gatekeepers whose enthusiasm and support of my work continues to make it possible.