What Now, Emma Lenford? by Kari Lynn M. - HTML preview

Acknowledgements

Okay, so... I think I just finished my second book... did I not?

Well, now I get to type up my favorite section... the unconventional thank-yous and gratitudes I have to share with the people who actually took the time to read my story!

So, duh, first one goes out to them... I mean, it's y'all that I'm really writing for, you know that, right? So, thank you so, so, SO much for giving my punchy pages a shot! And, since you're to this point of the book, I'll assume you actually read the whole thing (and I'll pretend you did if you really didn't and skipped ahead from the table of contents), and that means you get to be the favorite of all my favorite readers... because you're the only readers!

But, seriously, thank you so much—I'll never be able to say it enough.

Secondly, I'd like to throw a shout-out to my boy Drizzy Drake; More Life definitely gave me the more life I needed to get the ball rollin' on this thing... and persevere enough to finish it, too. I do have one stipulation, though... I'm not releasing my sequel until you release your next mixtape, and I just want everyone to know that because, before everyone gets on my back (ahem, dad...) like 'when's the next one coming out, when's the next one coming out???!!!', everyone has to understand that I physically cannot write without my Drake playlists.

Thank you for your understanding on that... if you do understand, I guess, and, if you don't, then I'll lie to myself and say you do because I don't know how to explain that any other way.

Thirdly, and I feel like some people probably sensed this one coming, I'd like to thank Sandra Bullock for her perfect portrayal of Gracie Hart/Miss Congeniality in her 2000 blockbuster hit Miss Congeniality. The reference Emma frequently made in this book was completely random on my part, as I just pulled it from the air eighteen months after my previous viewing of the film, but I'm glad I picked up on it nonetheless.

And, seriously, everybody loves Sandra Bullock, right?

Finally, thank you to everyone who's supported me and my creations and blah, blah, blah...

 Haha.

But, really, thank you guys; I won't name names because you know who you are, but thank yous definitely go out to the ones who believe(d) in me and my writings.

And thank you to all the dogs that let me pet them during the past twelve months...

And I can also give a blurb for all my sweet niblings, since I am sitting one of my nephews in my lap as I type part of this.

I surely am grateful.

—Kari <3