Blame It on Paris
Chapters (45)
- Cover
- Blame Iton Paris
- Copyright Notice
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Book One
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Book Two
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-four
- Twenty-five
- Twenty-six
- Twenty-seven
- Twenty-eight
- Twenty-nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-one
- Thirty-two
- Thirty-three
- Thirty-four
- Thirty-five
- Thirty-six
- Thirty-seven
- Thirty-eight
- Thirty-nine
Cover
Blame It
on Paris
Blame It
on Paris
LAURA FLORAND
A Tom Doherty Associates Book 
New York
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am not good at showing people how much I value them, so I wrote this book instead. I hope that my sense of humor doesn’t disguise my very sincere thanks to all the people involved in this story. This whole book can only give the smallest inkling of all the love and support and enthusiasm our two families offered us. Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, friends adopted into the family, nieces, one nephew (we only have one!) . . . thank you, thank you, thank you.
Just as we would never have made it without our families, we also would never have made it without our friends. A big, huge thank-you to all of you who people these pages!
I have to name the “church ladies,” who get only a glancing reference in the story. These real-life people volunteered to cook and cater the wedding of a girl they had not seen since she was a teenager; out of friendship for her parents, friendship for each other, and kindness and generosity to me. And they were not just ladies, husbands got involved, too. So sincere thanks to Betty and Frank Miller, Dan and Vicki Jones, Bernice Bishop, and Lee Strazay—truly astonishing, wonderful people.
In the writing of the book; thank you to my best readers and editors: Dai, Anna, and Grace McNamara. A group of writers led by Charisse Coleman also gave me invaluable advice on some of the chapters. Thank you, also, to Ted Weinstein, for pulling my book out of his slush pile and making me rewrite, rewrite, rewrite; to my agent Kimberley Cameron, for taking on the book and my writing career with such enthusiasm; and to Natalia Aponte and all the editors at Tor/Forge who worked on it. But this book would have been impossible without MY PARENTS, who have supported my writing in every way possible ever since I was nine years old and started filling notebooks.
And, of course, I want to thank Sébastien. It is the wonder of my life that I should have met him.
