The Real Michael Rosenberg

So if you've read the book, you know that the one and only date Cindy has been on was with this guy named Michael Rosenberg who is the son of one of her father's golf buddies. The date doesn't go so well, due to the fact that Michael doesn't know that the movie Lord of the Rings was based on a book and because he peppers his sentences with phrases like "Yo, check this.

The thing is, there really is a Michael Rosenberg -- and he's one of my closest friends and this is a picture of us at Chevalier Books on Larchmont Boulevard (the same street where Cindy meets Noah at Starbucks, and where she runs into Adam Silver at the yoga studio, and where she gets her makeover by Esta, and where she learns the shocking news about Noah at Cafe du Village). Michael and I have an agreement that the Michael Rosenberg character will appear in every one of my books. Maybe if he's really nice to me I'll make him a lead.