Love Is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann (ebook pc reader .txt) 📗

I would like to thank the Bath Spa University MA Writing for Young People community, especially my workshop besties Hana Tooke and Lucy Cuthew. From day one you have been both supportive and critical, and I know I was so very lucky to have landed in your midst.

Thank you to Audrey and Jack Ladevèze for the Bath Spa University MA Writing Award, which greatly eased the financial burden at the time.

Thank you to Julia Green and all my phenomenal tutors on the MA, especially to my genius manuscript tutor, and Phoebe’s real-life godmother, Joanna Nadin. Your tenacity and hard work is an inspiration to me, and I will forever be grateful for your continuously and savagely pushing me to try harder and do better.

Thank you to Jo Unwin for forwarding my love letter to JULA to the wonderful, fierce, and courageous woman who then became my agent: Rachel Mann. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel: thank you for loving Phoebe as much as you do and for telling everyone. Thank you for checking in with me when I’ve gone quiet again, for teaching me what’s what, and for always knowing what I want. You are the most wonderful gift.

A big thank-you to the hardworking team at Macmillan, who hosted us and threw a mini party for Phoebe even though it was in fact the Gruffalo’s birthday that day. Thank you to my brilliant editors Rachel Petty and Joy Peskin, who always ask the right questions. Your insight, knowledge, and empathy enabled me to make better choices again and again.

About the Author

Wibke Brueggemann grew up in northern Germany and the southern United States but calls London her home. She originally studied acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts but ended up becoming a writer. She has a master’s in writing for young people from Bath Spa University, where she was the recipient of the Bath Spa University MA Writing Award. Wibke enjoys traveling and is a clandestine lover of romantic poetry and Renaissance art. Love Is for Losers is her debut novel. @wibkebrueggeman. You can sign up for email updates here.

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Begin Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

Copyright © 2021 by Wibke Brueggemann

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First hardcover edition, 2021

eBook edition, 2021

eISBN 9780374313982