My Life as a Book – Nobody Does it Better: Guest Blogger Author Daisy Jordan

A chance encounter in a Rome hotel, two tremendously damaging photographs, and Hilton Joliet’s life is instantly altered. Previously working a dead-end job as an assistant in a portrait studio, she is now a freelance photographer for Game Set Match magazine, “the Us Weekly of tennis,” as she calls it.

Thrown rapidly into a jet-setting life of world-class tennis, the best seats at the best matches, and trailing the hottest young tennis stars and their model and actress girlfriends, Hilton, a former tennis player herself, can’t imagine a more fun job or a better way to jump-start her career while her boyfriend Luke finishes law school.

Author Daisy Jordan is an obsessive tennis fan and wrote Love Means Zero so she could live out her dream-job fantasy through Hilton.

But don’t worry if you’re not a tennis fan, Love Means Zero still has all the drama and suspense of Daisy’s previous books, which include Everything Happens for a Reason…, the Spin the Bottle series, and All That Sparkles Isn’t Real Sapphire. And without further ado, here’s Daisy…

In high school I was: Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)

I will never be: Wrong All Along (Daisy Jordan)

My fantasy job is: Silent Witness (Richard North Patterson) – I’m thinking CIA intelligence ops…

At the end of a long day I need: Really Good Friends (Daisy Jordan)

I hate it when: Love Means Zero (Daisy Jordan)

I wish I had: The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray)

You might be surprised: You’re the One That I Want (Cecily von Ziegesar)

At a party you’d find me with: The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I’ve never been to: The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)

A happy day includes: Beach Music (Pat Conroy)

Motto I live by: Everything Happens for a Reason… (Daisy Jordan)

On my bucket list: A Season in Purgatory (Dominick Dunne)

In my next life, I want to be: The Postcard Killers (James Patterson)

Next year I will: Weekend in Paris (Robyn Sisman)

I want to meet: Everyone Worth Knowing (Lauren Weisberger)

I would describe myself as: Just Like Ice Cream (Lissa Halls Johnson)

The thing I like doing most is: Loves Music, Loves to Dance (Mary Higgins Clark)

I have learned: All That Sparkles Isn’t Real Sapphire (Daisy Jordan)

My love life is: This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

My friends are: Picture Perfect (Jodi Picoult)

I have never gone: Whistling in the Dark (Lesley Kagen)

My perfect vacation would be: Escape from Terror Island (Francine Pascal) – And I must say I cannot wait for Sweet Valley Confidential!

When life gets hard, I say: The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

When I wake up in the morning the first thing I think about is: Last Night at Chateau Marmont (Lauren Weisberger)

My favorite saying is: Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank (Celia Rivenbark)

My favorite place is: The Other Side of Midnight (Sidney Sheldon)

My parents are: Dick and Jane (the series of readers by Grosset & Dunlap) – seriously

I will name my next pet: The Aminal (Lorna and Lecia Balian)

I love to talk about: Best-Kept Secrets (Daisy Jordan)

On a first date, I would go to: Deception Point (Dan Brown)

My best words of wisdom: Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)

The world would be a perfect place if: Just as Long as We’re Together (Judy Blume)

My state of mind at the moment is: Game Over (Daisy Jordan)

The title I really like but couldn’t find a way to use, so I put it as the title of this post, is: Nobody Does it Better (Cecily von Ziegesar)