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Authors: Ophelia London
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Making Waves: A Perfect Kisses Novella (10 page)
Acknowledgments
This was such a fun project, dreamed up on one exceptionally hot Texas summers day while remembering my recent trip to Oahu. As always, thank you to my editor, Stacy Abrams, for taking on my first crack at a novella when I clearly didn’t know how to write one. Mega-thanks to Alycia Tornetta for walking me through this. It was great fun to have you at the helm this time! Thanks to my critique partner, Emmy Curtis, who I obviously cannot write a book without and who saved me on too many plot points to count. Thank you, Ginger Upshaw for being so quick to do a read-through at the eleventh hour and always offering killer suggestions. “Thank-yer” to Nancy Carr for reading the very first chapters on that hot summers day and thinking they weren’t crap. This journey would not be as fun without the support and laughs I get from my cyber-sister-authors (Cindi, Rachel, Lisa, Robin, Leah, Sam, Wendy, Jen, Lindsay, Lexie…gah! Too many to name!), and all the fabulous chicks at #ChickLitChat, and of course, the amazzzzing readers and bloggers. Lastly, my whole-heart is ever grateful to the staff at Entangled Publishing for giving me such a happy home to write about kissing.
About the Author
Ophelia London was born and raised among the redwood trees in beautiful northern California. Once she was fully educated, she decided to settle in Florida, but her car broke down in Texas and she’s lived in Dallas ever since. A cupcake and treadmill aficionado (obviously those things are connected), she spends her time watching art-house movies and impossibly trashy TV, while living vicariously through the characters in the books she writes. Ophelia is the author of ABBY ROAD; the Perfect Kisses series including: PLAYING AT LOVE, SPEAKING OF LOVE, and FALLING FOR HER SOLDIER, and the new adult DEFINITELY, MAYBE IN LOVE. Visit her at
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