Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star by Russell, Rachel Renée
To my adorkable nieces,
Sydney, Cori, Presli,
Mikayla, and Arianna
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As I finish Dork Diaries Book 7, I STILL have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming! Writing each new Dork Diaries book has been MORE fun and exciting than the last one. I would like to thank the following people:
My Dork Diaries fans all over the world, who love Nikki Maxwell as much as I do! Stay nice, smart, and DORKY!
Liesa Abrams Mignogna, my AMAZING editor, who in the past year has somehow managed to edit three Dork Diaries books, all while being a new mom to Bat Baby! I ALWAYS knew you had superpowers!!
Daniel Lazar, my AWESOME agent and friend, who actually (still!) answers my e-mails at 2:00 a.m. Thank you for your support, dedication, and willingness to let me be weirdly creative.
Torie Doherty-Munro, for your endless enthusiasm and keeping us SUPERorganized; and Deena Warner, for all of your great work on DorkDiaries.com.
Karin Paprocki, my BRILLIANT art director, who amazed me with your speedy and PERFECT work on Dork Diaries Book 7! I love our GLAM Book 7 cover!
Katherine Devendorf, Mara Anastas, Carolyn Swerdloff, Matt Pantoliano, Paul Crichton, Fiona Simpson, Bethany Buck, Hayley Gonnason, Anna McKean, Alyson Heller, Lauren Forte, Jeannie Ng, Brenna Franzitta, Lucille Rettino, Mary Marotta and the entire sales team, and everyone else at Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. Team Dork ROCKS!!
Maja Nikolic, Cecilia de la Campa, and Angharad Kowal, my foreign rights agents at Writers House, for Dorkifying the world one country at a time.
My daughters, Erin and Nikki, for inspiring this series, and my sister, Kim, for being the eternal optimist! Thank you for helping me bring Nikki Maxwell’s world to life and for your endless passion for all things Dorky!
And last but not least, my entire family! Thank you for your unwavering love and support. I LOVE you!
Always remember to let your inner DORK shine through!
SATURDAY, MARCH 1
OMG!! I STILL can hardly believe what happened to me yesterday!! THREE totally-awesome-completely-unbelievable-too-good-to-be-true-exciting-wonderful things!!
Totally-awesome-completely-unbelievable-too-good-to-be-true-exciting-wonderful thing #1: I ACTUALLY WENT TO THE VALENTINE’S DAY SWEETHEART DANCE !! SQUEEEE!
Yep! It was girls ask the guys! And at the very last moment, I FINALLY got up the nerve to ask my crush, Brandon!
Totally-awesome-completely-unbelievable-too-good-to-be-true-exciting-wonderful thing #2: I WAS CROWNED SWEETHEART PRINCESS !! SQUEEEEEEE!!
I still don’t know exactly how THAT happened. But it did! And I have my TIARA to prove it!!
ME, STILL WEARING MY DAZZLING TIARA FROM LAST NIGHT!
And finally, the most AMAZING thing EVER!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Totally-awesome-completely-unbelievable-too-good-to-be-true-exciting-wonderful thing #3: DURING THE VERY LAST DANCE OF THE MOST PERFECT, ROMANTIC, FAIRY-TALE EVENING, BRANDON AND I . . .
Hey! Wait a minute! Is that my cell phone ringing?!!
YES! My phone IS ringing!!!
Hey! Maybe it’s . . .
BRANDON!! !!!
(Checking my caller ID . . .)
NOPE!! It’s NOT Brandon calling.
WAIT!! OMG!!! I can’t believe it’s . . .
He’s just THE most famous TV producer in the entire WORLD! And the host of my FAVORITE TV show, a reality TV show/talent boot camp called . . .
SQUEEEEEEE !!
Gotta answer my phone!
I’m on spring break from school this entire week. So I’ll have plenty of time to finish writing this . . .
LATER!!! !