Thanks to my extended family for being there after my mother could not.
Thanks to Marilyn Friedman and the many good folks at Writing Pad in L.A. for encouraging me through my first rewrite.
Thanks to Gudrun Cram-Drach for reading everything I send her, asking the right questions, and always inspiring me to write some more.
Thanks to my mother-in-law, Mary Zimmerman, for taking care of Betty during my negotiations with the muse and also for making coffee whenever I say I’m too tired to write.
Thanks to Monique M. King-Viehland for being the best friend in the history of ever and for always jumping up and down with me whenever I get good news, even though we are both grown and live thousands of miles apart. You remain the most amazing woman I know.
Most of all, thanks to my husband, Christian Hibbard. It’s your love that makes me believe in true romance and it’s your support that makes me brave.
Also, thank YOU so very much for reading this story. I hope you liked it.
100% Love,
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About the Author
ERNESSA T. CARTER has worked as an ESL teacher in Japan, a music journalist in Pittsburgh, a payroll administrator in Burbank, and a radio writer for American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest in Hollywood. She is also a retired member of the L.A. Derby Dolls roller derby league. She graduated from Smith College and from Carnegie Mellon University’s MFA program. 32 Candles is her first novel. Find out more about the book and read her blog at www.32candles.com.