Don't Hate the Player...Hate the Game (37 page)

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Katie Ashley is the New York Times, USA
Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author of The Proposition. She lives
outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her two very spoiled dogs and one
outnumbered cat. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The
Golden Girls, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Designing
Women, and Scooby-Doo.

She spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of
America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full
time in December 2012.

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Thanks always to God for his immense
blessings in both my professional and personal life. Thanks to my
family, friends, and church family for supporting me along this
crazy journey.

Thanks to my former Young Adult Literary agent, Fonda
Snyder. You were a pleasure to work with during my rocky path to
traditional publication. You never ceased believing in me, Noah,
and my other novels. Your input was integral and valuable to Don’t
Hate the Player. It was a pleasure working with you for eighteen
months, and I will always be grateful for your dedication to me and
my career.

Thanks to Marion Archer, my sister from Down Under! I
can’t tell you how much you mean to me as a friend and as a
critique partner. Honestly, you helped to make DHtP so much
stronger, so much deeper, and so much more amazing than I could
ever imagine. Between our zoom chats and comment bubbles, I was
able to dig even deeper into the story after so many years.

To Hannah Wiley: Thank you for everything you brought
to Don’t Hate the Player from your multiple critiques to you being
a cheerleader and commiserating during the submission process. Most
of all, I thank you for your friendship all these years and for
believing in me and my writing.

To Letitia Hasser for a kickass cover. Thanks for all
your hard work and dedication on my covers. And thanks for not
strangling me when I couldn’t make up my mind!

To JB McGee for your awesome formatting and always
letting me procrastinate aka proofread until the last minute. You
rock professionally and personally.

Thanks to Cris Hardarly for being the sweetest and
most amazing friend and support. Thanks also to Shannon Furhman,
Emilie Grey, and Tamara Debbaut for your amazing fan art, pimpage,
and support of my writing. To all my supporters in my street team,
Ashley’s Angels, and to my street Team Captains Michelle Eck and
Cris Hardarly.

To some of the original readers back in the day Debra
Driza, Jennifer Wood, Rachele Mielke, and Rebecca Rogers.

To every reader who has ever picked up one of my
books and every blogger who has reviewed it I give you my eternal
gratitude and love!!!

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