Viola in Reel Life (18 page)

Authors: Adriana Trigiani

Tags: #Fiction, #General, #School & Education, #New Experience, #Boarding schools, #Schools, #Production and direction, #Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, #Video recordings, #Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), #Social Issues - Friendship, #Friendship, #Social Issues - Adolescence, #Video recordings - Production and direction, #Ghosts, #Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General, #Social Issues, #Girls & Women, #Juvenile Fiction, #Dating (Customs), #Social Issues - New Experience, #Indiana, #Interpersonal Relations, #Self-reliance, #Adolescence

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My evermore thanks to the great team at HarperTeen. I am lucky to work with a fabulous editor, Tara Weikum. Laura Kaplan is a publicity whiz. Thank you also to the brilliant Susan Katz, Kate Jackson, Elise Howard, Jocelyn Davies, Barb Fitzsimmons, Alison Donalty, Ray Shappell, Diane Naughton, Cristina Gilbert, Erin Gallagher, Kristina Radke, Colleen O’Connell, Laura Kaplan, Marisa Wetzel, Andrea Pappenheimer, Kerry Moynagh, Kathy Faber, Liz Frew, Jessica Abel, Josh Weiss, Melinda Weigel, and Barbara Cho.

At the powerhouse William Morris Endeavor Entertainment my daily gratitude to: Suzanne Gluck, Nancy Josephson, Cara Stein, Michelle Bohan, Alicia Gordon, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Sarah Ceglarski, Liz Tingue, Caroline Donofrio, Natalie Hayden, Philip Grenz, Erin Malone, Eliza Chamblin, Tracy Fisher, Eugenie Furniss, Cathryn Summerhayes, Raffaella de Angelis, and Josh Levy.

Thank you to Larry Sanitsky, the great producer who reads often and early, and at the Sanitsky Company: Jay Steckel and Claude Chung.

I am most lucky to have the world’s best assistant, Kelly Meehan. And thank you also to Molly McGuire who swoops in and works hard when we need her the most.

About the Author

ADRIANA TRIGIANI
is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. She is the author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series, the bestselling novels
LUCIA, LUCIA; THE QUEEN OF THE BIG TIME; ROCOCO;
and
VERY VALENTINE.
This is her first novel for teens. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. You can visit her online at www.adrianatrigiani.com.

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Credits

Jacket design by Ray Shappell

Copyright

VIOLA IN REEL LIFE
. Copyright © 2009 by Adriana Trigiani. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition July 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194890-9

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