About the Author

Rachel Hollis founded the LA-based event planning firm Chic Events at the age of twenty-one, and six years later Inc. magazine named her one of the top thirty entrepreneurs under thirty years of age. She has designed and produced fabulous events for many of Hollywood's elite, and she turned Chic into the popular website TheChicSite.com, where readers can log in daily for party planning and lifestyle advice. Hollis is the author of the novels Party Girl and Sweet Girl and the accompanying short story "Party Girl's First Date." Smart Girl is her third novel. She lives in LA with her husband and three children.