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July 16, 2014
Calling All Animals - Mystery Character Raffle!
by Sheila Webster Boneham
Do you know any pet owners who wouldn't like to have their own pets appear in a a novel? When I asked myself that question a couple of years ago, I couldn't think of anyone, so I pitched an idea to two organizations whose causes I strongly support. I wrote about the raffles last year in "Could Your Dog Be a Sleuth?" And now, I'm doing it again!
Shepherd's
Do you know any pet owners who wouldn't like to have their own pets appear in a a novel? When I asked myself that question a couple of years ago, I couldn't think of anyone, so I pitched an idea to two organizations whose causes I strongly support. I wrote about the raffles last year in "Could Your Dog Be a Sleuth?" And now, I'm doing it again!
Shepherd's
July 13, 2014
Image, Text, and Dogs, Part 1
by Sheila Webster Boneham
Today's post is the first of two about how images and text about our best friends have been combined through the ages. This post is adapted from a paper I wrote while working on my MFA in Creative Writing in the Stonecoast Program/University of Southern Maine. Special thanks to my friend and mentor Cait Johnson, who insisted I find the project that would "light me
Today's post is the first of two about how images and text about our best friends have been combined through the ages. This post is adapted from a paper I wrote while working on my MFA in Creative Writing in the Stonecoast Program/University of Southern Maine. Special thanks to my friend and mentor Cait Johnson, who insisted I find the project that would "light me
July 9, 2014
Imogene Duckworthy’s Animals
by Kaye George
Immy lives in
Texas, near the panhandle, so she’s surrounded by cattle. In the first book,
CHOKE, she doesn’t have any pets. Clem, the cook at the diner, does have an overweight,
tawny cat. It makes an appearance near the end of the story.
However, Immy’s
daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, nicknamed Drew, gets a potbellied pig for her
birthday at the very beginning of SMOKE.
Immy lives in
Texas, near the panhandle, so she’s surrounded by cattle. In the first book,
CHOKE, she doesn’t have any pets. Clem, the cook at the diner, does have an overweight,
tawny cat. It makes an appearance near the end of the story.
However, Immy’s
daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, nicknamed Drew, gets a potbellied pig for her
birthday at the very beginning of SMOKE.
July 6, 2014
Seriously Funny
by Susan J. Kroupa
One of my favorite saying is from
Proverbs: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones."
Sometimes I forget that. The other
day, in a blog post, after promoting what a friend calls my "doggy
books," I said, "But I've also written serious stuff set in the
Southwest, in Hopi and Navajo culture. I was referring to several stories
One of my favorite saying is from
Proverbs: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones."
Sometimes I forget that. The other
day, in a blog post, after promoting what a friend calls my "doggy
books," I said, "But I've also written serious stuff set in the
Southwest, in Hopi and Navajo culture. I was referring to several stories
July 2, 2014
Your Pet Could Be in a Mystery!
by Sheila Webster Boneham
OMG, you guys!!! One of us could be a STAR!!
Don't forget to submit your entry for the ARPH Character Raffle Fundraiser.
The lucky winner will be featured in Sheila Boneham's fourth mystery,
tentatively titled Shepherd's Crook.
All species are welcome to enter!
(Other than humanoids!)
Some of you may recall that I've done this before - raffled off guest
OMG, you guys!!! One of us could be a STAR!!
Don't forget to submit your entry for the ARPH Character Raffle Fundraiser.
The lucky winner will be featured in Sheila Boneham's fourth mystery,
tentatively titled Shepherd's Crook.
All species are welcome to enter!
(Other than humanoids!)
Some of you may recall that I've done this before - raffled off guest
June 29, 2014
Cover Reveal! Judy Alter's Forthcoming Novel
by Judy Alter
Color me excited as I reveal the cover of my
forthcoming novel, The Perfect Coed. My
first venture into self-publishing will launch October 15.
Years ago—maybe ten?—I knew I wanted to write
mysteries. One mystery, I told myself, and I’d be happy. So I wrote a novel I
called The Perfect Coed. At the time
I didn’t belong to Sisters in Crime, knew nothing about the world of
Color me excited as I reveal the cover of my
forthcoming novel, The Perfect Coed. My
first venture into self-publishing will launch October 15.
Years ago—maybe ten?—I knew I wanted to write
mysteries. One mystery, I told myself, and I’d be happy. So I wrote a novel I
called The Perfect Coed. At the time
I didn’t belong to Sisters in Crime, knew nothing about the world of
June 25, 2014
Excerpt from Murder Strikes a Pose by Tracy Weber
Excerpt from
Murder Strikes a Pose
by Tracy Weber
Midnight Ink, 2014
Author's note: In this excerpt, Kate is at home late at night after finding her homeless friend George’s body. She has taken Bella, the victim’s dog, home to stay with her until the police locate his family. Kate feels guilty over a fight she had with George earlier that day.
I looked at the clock and almost
Murder Strikes a Pose
by Tracy Weber
Midnight Ink, 2014
Author's note: In this excerpt, Kate is at home late at night after finding her homeless friend George’s body. She has taken Bella, the victim’s dog, home to stay with her until the police locate his family. Kate feels guilty over a fight she had with George earlier that day.
I looked at the clock and almost
June 22, 2014
The Making of a Book Cover
Animals in Focus #1 won the
2013 Maxwell Award for Fiction
from the Dog Writers Association
of America and was an NBCPetside
Top Ten Dog Book of 2012.
by Sheila Webster Boneham
Forget the maxim "you can't judge a book by it's cover," even if it's true. The fact is that readers do make initial, often subconscious, judgments based on cover art and design.
Although some book covers
2013 Maxwell Award for Fiction
from the Dog Writers Association
of America and was an NBCPetside
Top Ten Dog Book of 2012.
by Sheila Webster Boneham
Forget the maxim "you can't judge a book by it's cover," even if it's true. The fact is that readers do make initial, often subconscious, judgments based on cover art and design.
Although some book covers
June 18, 2014
Kerchew! Thoughts from the Other Side of the [Animal] Pen
by Jenny Milchman
This might
sound strange, given the subject of this blog, but I am not an animal lover.
Before you start to dislike me, or at least view me with the kind of
uncomprehending huh that most people
feel when someone makes the confession I just did, please hear me out.
Animals make
me sick. Physically sick, that is. And I don’t just mean a few sneezes,
take-a-Claritin kind of
This might
sound strange, given the subject of this blog, but I am not an animal lover.
Before you start to dislike me, or at least view me with the kind of
uncomprehending huh that most people
feel when someone makes the confession I just did, please hear me out.
Animals make
me sick. Physically sick, that is. And I don’t just mean a few sneezes,
take-a-Claritin kind of
June 15, 2014
How many truly favorite books can you list?
by Judy Alter
I have a friend, longtime English professor,who
maintains the measure of a book is whether or not generations to come will be
reading it a hundred years from now. His nomination is the late Benjamin Capps’
The Road to Ogallala.
Albert Payson Terhune &
one of his famous Collies
As a child, I had many favorite books as I
moved from age to age. As with many of my generation, my
I have a friend, longtime English professor,who
maintains the measure of a book is whether or not generations to come will be
reading it a hundred years from now. His nomination is the late Benjamin Capps’
The Road to Ogallala.
Albert Payson Terhune &
one of his famous Collies
As a child, I had many favorite books as I
moved from age to age. As with many of my generation, my
