Party Girl

Landon Brinkley’s dreams are all coming true. She’s landed an internship with the fabulous Selah Smith, event planner for the Hollywood elite, taking her from small-town Texas to the bright lights of LA. Landon soon finds herself in a world in which spending a million dollars on an event—even a child’s birthday party—is de rigueur and the whims of celebrity clients are life-and-death matters. At first, the thrill of working on A-list parties and celebrity weddings is enough to get Landon through the seventy-five-hour workweeks and endless abuse at the hands of her mercurial boss. But when the reality of the business reveals itself, she’s forced to make a choice: do whatever it takes to get ahead, or stay true to herself.

Drawing on the author’s real-life experiences as an event planner to the stars, Party Girl takes readers on an adventure among Hollywood’s most beautiful—and most outrageous—people, revealing the ugly side of Hollywood’s prettiest parties.

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Rachel Hollis is the founder of the popular lifestyle site www.thechicsite.com and the Los Angeles–based event planning firm Chic Events. At twenty-seven, she was named by Inc. Magazine as one of its “Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30.” She has designed and produced parties for many Hollywood stars, including Bradley Cooper, Al Gore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ivanka Trump, Rashida Jones, Marcia Cross, Jamie King, and Cuba Gooding Jr., among others. Rachel is a lifestyle expert for The Talk, Extra, The Nate Berkus Show, and The Steve Harvey Show and has been featured in People, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, OK!, Entertainment Weekly, Better Homes and Gardens, and Traditional Home. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.