I’d like to thank several people for their contributions to this book. First, my editor, Libby Sternberg. This was our first project together and I’m delighted to have found someone so in tune with what I was attempting to accomplish. In addition, I’d like to thank Jessica Lewis. This book would have been impossible without her formatting genius.
I’d also like to thank my Beta readers (aka my family). I wouldn’t be the writer I am without them. For this book, they were Hazen Totton and Adrienne Glendening Smith. Dre, your suggestions were fantastic. Thank you so much!
Finally, because of the setting and time period, a lot of research was involved. Even
Love, Day
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Meet Day Leclaire
Wacky comes naturally to Day Leclaire. It always has. Or maybe she’s just a trouble magnet.
Like the time she taught all the kids in her kindergarten class how to lock the bathroom stalls and slide out underneath. Or when she became the first kindergartner in the school’s history to get suspended, after starting a glue war to the tune of one carpet, ten emergency haircuts, fifteen shirts, three pants, and two pairs of sneakers. Or was it three pairs of sneakers?
Anyway, ten years later she came up with the bright idea to use her father’s street motorcycle like a dirtbike and crashed it while attempting a spectacular jump over two logs, a lawn chair, her brother, and the family St. Bernard. Brutus survived. Her brother still has nightmares. The motorcycle was DOA. Day, only slightly bent, spindled, and mutilated, spent most of that year grounded.
Then there were all the times she wrecked the family car. Her parents were not amused. The insurance adjuster was. Eventually, he started answering the phone, “So, what’s she done now?”
Nowadays, when Day isn't wondering if her driving record wasn't the impetus for the "Mayhem" commercials, she's loving her SPCA foster dogs and playing The Sims 3 obsessively.
Day also writes with equal obsession, and loves to play god with the fabulous characters and settings she creates—all within the confines of her computer world, of course. Or so she claims…
Day loves getting to know her readers.
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