Thank you, Kelie, for letting me steal your tattoo for Mercedes, and for you being generally you, and to Isabel, Pam and family, Maire, Allyson, Laura, Roni, Tessa, Natalie, and Kate for continuing to be the amazing people you are.
To the family, for being supportive and cheerful and so, so proud of me. It means a lot and keeps me going even when I want to set the draft on fire, and I am very grateful. And thank you for not minding when I carved out a few hours away from the mass arrivals and prewedding festivities so I could work on edits. Specifically, thank you to Robert and Stacy for giving me a place to land when I was so caught up in trying to finish the book on time that I couldn’t look for a place to live.
Thank you to Kesha, whose new album fueled half the draft and edits, and Mary Balogh, whose books keep me sane when I’m stressed, and the Yankee Candle Company Mountain Lodge candle, because the smell of lumberjack Chris Evans is surprisingly helpful in keeping calm to work. Thank you to the tenth anniversary live-in-concert Les Misérables, the 2015 live-action Cinderella, and Shrek: The Musical, for being the things I can have on in the background while I’m editing.
Finally, thank you to all of you, all my readers, all my chatterboxes who talk the book up to others, to the bloggers and crafters and artists who share the word in their own way. Thank you for your support, for your time, thank you for your responses, thank you for making it possible for me to continue doing this wacky thing I love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © 2012 Arabella Blizzard
Dot Hutchison is the author of The Butterfly Garden and The Roses of May, the first two books in The Collector Trilogy; as well as A Wounded Name, a young adult novel based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hutchison loves thunderstorms, mythology, history, and movies that can and should be watched on repeat. She has a background in theater, Renaissance Festival living chessboards, and freefalls. She likes to think that St. George regretted killing that dragon for the rest of his days. For more information on her current projects, visit www.dothutchison.com or connect with her on Tumblr (www.dothutchison.tumblr.com), Twitter (@DotHutchison), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/DotHutchison).
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