A Promise for Tomorrow

by Michele Paige Holmes

  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.