All the Sweet Tomorrows

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bertrice Small is the best-selling author of The Kadin, Love Wild and Fair, Adora, Skye O'Malley, Unconquered, and Beloved. She lives in the oldest English settlement in the state of New York, a small village on the eastern end of Long Island. She is called "Sunny" by her friends, and "Lust's Leading Lady" by her fans; but her son insists that to him, she's just plain "Mom."

Mrs. Small works at an antique desk in a light-filled pink, green, and white studio overlooking her old-fashioned rose and flower garden. It is furnished in what she describes as a mixture of office modern and Turkish harem. Mrs. Small's only companions as she writes creating her handsome rogues, dashing renegades, and beautiful vixens are her typewriter, Rebecca, and Checquers, a black and white kitten with big pink ears, who has recently joined the family and is trying very hard to fill the large niche left by the departure of Ditto, who died after 15V2 happy years. As Ditto so often said:

Man can live without pandas, gorillas, or frogs;

He can live without chickens and live without hogs.

He can live without sparrows and live without bats,

But civilized man cannot live without CATS.

– Hiram and Other Cats, by Lawrence Dwight Smith, Grosset and Dunlap, Inc., New York, 1941