Field Notes on Love(77)

I feel very lucky to be published by Delacorte Press, and I’m especially fortunate to work with Beverly Horowitz and Barbara Marcus, who are both so wonderful. I’m also very thankful to everyone there who had a role in turning this messy pile of words into a hard rectangular object: Alexandra Hightower, Judith Haut, Jillian Vandall, Barbara Bakowski, Colleen Fellingham, Tamar Schwartz, Alison Impey, Liz Casal Goodhue, Adrienne Waintraub, Kristin Schulz, Dominique Cimina, Kate Keating, and Cayla Rasi, among others.

As always, I’m grateful to everyone at ICM, especially Binky Urban, Josie Freedman, John DeLaney, Heather Bushong, and Nicolas Vivas. And to Stephanie Thwaites, Roxane Edouard, Georgina Simmonds, and Isobel Gahan at Curtis Brown. In the UK, it’s been a joy to work with Rachel Petty, Sarah Hughes, George Lester, Venetia Gosling, and Kat McKenna at Macmillan.

    A great big thank-you to those friends who read early drafts or acted as sounding boards or just generally offered a whole lot of wisdom and support throughout this process: Jenny Han, Kelly Mitchell, Sarah Mlynowski, Jenni Henaux, Lauren Graham, Morgan Matson, and Anna Carey.

And lastly, to Dad, Mom, Kelly, Errol, Andrew, and Jack: the best bunch of train enthusiasts I know.





Jennifer E. Smith is the author of eight novels for young adults, including Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. She lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter at @JenESmith or visit her at jenniferesmith.com.