To my original writers group and the rest of the Richmond gang: Amanda, Jessica, Sara, Joey, Irene, Remi, and Erich. Thank you not only for your brilliant writing expertise, but for letting me text you endlessly about my anxieties, and in general for your magical unicorn friendship.

To the other writers who read my first drafts and helped me shape this story: Cassia, Cady, Jenn, Julie, and Marjorie. You’ve been with Keely and Andrew since the beginning. And to the rest of Shirin’s Army, thanks for your company and support and late-night glasses of cognac.

Thank you to Jody Gehrman, Sabrina Lotfi, and Renée Price for your beta reads and your enthusiastic championing. You fairy-godmothered this book and got her ready for prom.

I am incredibly lucky to have so many amazing friends. To the Doobs—with a friend like you, I play the right part. To my magical book club, thank you for being hilarious, intelligent, feminist queens who are always ready with a Harry Potter reference. Endless love to 4th Floor South, the Gauchos, and the whole Bae Area crew! You’re all my family and I am so thankful to have so much laughter in my life. If high school me—who was lonely and insecure and afraid of the future—could have seen you all coming, she would have been so proud. I know we will all stay friends forever and I can’t wait to eat pizza with you until we’re too old to chew. If this book sells well, I promise to buy the commune.

And of course, thank you to my amazing agent, Taylor Haggerty, and the rest of the Root Literary team (special shout-out to Melanie Figueroa for picking me out of the slush!). Thanks to my incredible editor, Julie Rosenberg, and to everyone else at Razorbill, for believing in this book and making my dreams come true. Thank you to Heather Baror-Shapiro for bringing this book abroad, and to Mary Pender-Coplan for film. Thanks to my designer, Maggie Edkins, and my illustrator, Carolina Melis, for my beautiful cover. To the marketing and publicity teams at Penguin for everything you’re doing to share my story.

Last, but certainly not least, thank you to the readers. Without you this would all be meaningless.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cameron Lund is a young adult author, singer/songwriter, and pizza enthusiast. Originally from the middle of the New Hampshire woods, she moved to the beach to study film at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has stayed out west ever since. Her love of travel has taken her to more than twenty-five countries--there's nothing she loves more than writing while on an adventure somewhere, preferably with a view of a waterfall. The Best Laid Plans is her first novel. Find Cameron on Twitter and Instagram @camloond.

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