On the Meldon Plain (The Fourline Trilogy Book 2) (33 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I grew up watching my mom write her novels on an electric typewriter at a desk opposite our washing machine. The walls of her office/laundry room were covered with rejection letters that she affixed to the wall with brightly colored thumbtacks. I’m still not sure why she did that. Maybe staring rejection in the face, instead of letting it loom in the background, made plugging away each day to meet her self-imposed page quota easier. When she sold her first novel, we started a fire in the fireplace and fed those rejection letters, one by one, into the flames. I remember that day vividly, but what I remember even more is my mom’s belief, persistence, and work ethic even when she was staring at a wall covered in rejection.

Mom, this book is dedicated to you. Thank you for your love and the many lessons I’ve learned from you over the years. You are all the Sisters wrapped into one.

Dad, thank you for your support and serving as my on-call scientist for this trilogy. I am blessed to have such wonderful parents.

To the editorial team at Skyscape, thank you for helping me shape these stories. Courtney Miller and Tegan Tigani, you have been inspiring and delightful to work with, and your insight has been a gift.

My agent, Valerie Noble, deserves more thanks and praise than I can offer.

I’d need another twenty pages to properly acknowledge my husband and children for everything they did for me and put up with while I was writing
On the Meldon Plain
. To sum it up, you are my deepest loves and I can’t thank you enough.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo © 2015 Ally Klosterman

Pam Brondos grew up in Wyoming and watched her mom write novels on a manual typewriter. She graduated from St. Olaf College; worked in Shanghai, China; and received her juris doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
Gateway to Fourline
, her debut novel, released in 2015. The Fourline Trilogy continues with book two,
On the Meldon Plain
. For more information about Pam, visit her online at
www.pamalabrondos.com
.