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A Promise for Tomorrow was months (years, in some ways) in the making, and I have many people to thank for their help in getting it from the initial ideas in my head to its final form on paper.
I am grateful to Brekke Felt for the beautiful photography for the covers of Yesterday’s Promise, A Promise for Tomorrow, and the upcoming The Promise of Home. Her ability to capture the Highland countryside (right here in Utah!) was much appreciated. I am also grateful to Rachael Anderson for her continued talents producing each of the beautiful Hearthfire covers. Thank you for putting up with my pickiness!
Cassidy Wadsworth Sorenson and Lisa Shepherd have become two of my favorite editors. They are both so thorough, and they excel at finding mistakes and ways to improve my stories. I am so grateful to each of them for making me look better than I am.
I am particularly thankful to Mindy Holt and Heather Moore at Mirror Press. These two ladies are on top of their game and keep trying to get me to be on top of mine (please don’t give up on me yet!). I am grateful for their brain power and know-how, for the time and effort they spend getting my books into the hands of readers. Their intelligence and hard work does not go unnoticed, and I continue to aspire to share even a portion of their abilities.
Finally, I owe a continued debt of gratitude to my husband and children. Some books take longer to write than others. A Promise for Tomorrow definitely fell into that “longer” category. Thank you, Dixon, for the weekends you sacrificed to my laptop, the nights you went to bed alone because I was up late writing. Thank you for covering the school carnival, homework duty, and basement finishing because my writing consumed so much of my time. Thank you for putting up with the never-ending pile of laundry (someday I hope to actually sort it and put it away), simple dinners, and a wife who’s always walking around with half her brain in another world. Being married to me cannot be easy; thank you for your patience, for roses when I finish, for being more romantic than all the heroes I write.
Thank you, Hannah and Andrew, for mostly doing your homework on your own, for putting up with a mom who can be a little distracted when she’s in the throes of drafting a novel, for being self-motivated and responsible kids. I hope you grow up knowing that hard work pays off in fulfilling your own dreams.