The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

peeps at Penguin Creative; Bridget O’Toole and Jessica Brock
for helping me make people think that they might want to read
this book; everyone at Berkley who has helped getting this
manuscript in shape behind the scenes; Rian Johnson, for
doing The Thing that inspired me to do All The Things.
The truth is, I never saw myself as someone who’d ever
write anything but science articles. And I probably never
would have if it hadn’t been for all the fanfiction authors who
posted amazing pieces online and encouraged me to start
writing myself. And I certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to
start writing original fiction if it hadn’t been for the support,
the cheering, the encouragement, the con-crit I got from the
Star Trek and Star Wars/Reylo fandoms. To everyone who has
left a comment or kudos on my fics, who has given me shoutouts
on social media, who has reached out in DMs, who has
drawn art for me or made a mood board, who has cheered me
on, who has taken the time to read something I’ve written:
thank you. Really, thank you so much. I owe you a lot.
Last, and let’s be real, also definitely least: some halfhearted
thanks to Stefan, for all the love and the patience. You
better not be reading this, you pretentious hipster.