Well, I guess I did it. I wrote a book. I actually wrote a book.
It's been a really crazy ride writing this novel and there's so much I could say here about that journey and everything... but I'll make it short, I promise.
Well, maybe.
Anyway, I think this is where I'm supposed to say my 'thank y'alls' and express gratitude for the people who kept me going and motivated while I slaved away at my keyboard during seventy percent of my time as an eighteen-year-old. So, thank you Sir Mix-a-Lot for creating the hit Baby Got Back, which I'll confess I listened to on repeat more times than I probably should have while writing this story, and to both General Mills and Betty Crocker for making and distributing Hamburger Helper Microwave Singles to college students like me who religiously eat cheeseburger mac in their dorm rooms while studying for chemistry tests well past midnight. Or, in my case, for the girl who should have probably been studying for her chemistry test... but somehow ended up working on her 100,000+ word novel instead.
Okay, okay, now for real.
Thank you to my family and my friends for reading my story... or, really, for begging me to finish my story and publish already so they could read it! Thanks especially to wonderful father for being my #1 fan right from the very first day I even mentioned having an interest in writing and for being the one that really pushed me to even get this far and publish my first book! And... thanks, of course, to everyone who is reading this right now; readers are the real reason I write. I mean, who would want to write a ~500 page book and not have anyone to share it with?
Also, thank you so much to everyone who has befriended me on Wattpad or read any of my stories on that website! I really do love that community and definitely believe that I would have never even thought of pursuing writing if I had never joined it.
Okay, I know, this wasn't really all that short... but, again, I just wrote a 100,000+ word story; did you really expect short from me?
I hope you enjoy my story and thank you all so, so much for reading it! <3
-Kari