The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer (ebook reader for manga txt) 📕

Swoon Reads blog-related; and Brittany Pearlman, for all your help and hard work with marketing and publicity.

Janet and Bob Bischer, my parents, who very kindly bought their then-broke-ish daughter the laptop the first draft of this book was originally written on. I’m glad it churned out something more meaningful than salty Yankees tweets and cat-photo-centric Facebook posts.

Kenneth Wert, a genius plotter and the very first believer in this book, who, upon hearing the plot for it back in 2009 was like, “That’s going to get published!” It took longer than we thought, but it happened, and that confidence gave me confidence to keep going. Long live our “Newport Days”!

Micol Ostow and my fellow writers in her spring 2010 YA novel-writing workshop, where this story officially began on page. And the biggest of thanks to the critique group that grew out of that class—“The Rogues,” a wise, witty, incredibly talented group of writers who are essentially this book’s godmothers and have been there every step of this saga: Linda Blum, Joanne Donovan, Nancy Lambert, Danielle Rumore Lundquist, and Fiona Taylor.

Alyssa Reuben, whose insights helped the first draft become a solid foundation for what exists now.

My very first “readers”: Laura Carney, Rachel Chang, Aimee Leinhardt, and Courtney Pressler, whose requests to see my first draft made me feel like a “real” writer.

My friends and coworkers who have been have been stalwart champions of this book, my unofficial therapists when working through book-related challenges, and also so understanding when socializing has to take a backseat to writing/editing/rewriting: Erica Brown, Amy Dolan, Dexter Gasque, Claire Goncalves, Rana Meyer, Vicki Obe, Stephanie Sloane, and Tonya Trudo.

The Swoon Squad, who have been an absolutely vital source of useful information and support. I’m so glad we have each other!

And, finally, the Swoon Readers who vocalized their love for this book with votes or comments. This book doesn’t get to the point of needing an acknowledgements section without you, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to convey my thanks for that enough.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KAREN BISCHER has written short stories for Girls’ World and Animal Tales magazines and currently works as a copyeditor. She lives in her native New Jersey, where she has never encountered Bruce Springsteen in the wild, but does have a cat named after a member of the E Street Band. When she’s not writing, you can find her cheering on the Yankees or geeking out over her favorite TV shows. You can sign up for email updates here.

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

Copyright © 2021 by Karen Bischer

A Swoon Reads Book

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020911197

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First hardcover edition 2021

eBook edition 2021

eISBN 9781250242310