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DH is home from surgery and not function

DH is home from surgery and not functional, the car won’t stay running and can’t get it repaired for a couple of weeks because all the repair shops are busy fixing cars with other cold-weather related problems, and we had no heat for eight hours last night thanks to the power company’s choice of time to turn off our heat (per our agreement with them) and we forgot to turn on the alternate heat source. So, all in all, a perfect storm of things going wrong. But Wolf Legend came into the world today and that put everything in perspective. Life goes on, the world continues to turn and books get published and out there where they can be seen, heard, read and loved. And that’s a wonderful thing. And thank every one of you who loves the psychic wolf pup Snowball as much as I do.

Thanks for welcoming Snowball the white

Thanks for welcoming Snowball the white wolf pup. Today is her first day online and she loves all the attention. http://www.FlorenceWitkop.com

How’d I choose the coldest day in seven

How’d I choose the coldest day in seventeen years to publish Wolf Legend? I didn’t know it would be the coldest day. Didn’t know it would be forty below zero. Didn’t know we’d stay home. Didn’t know the news would all be about the weather. Not about books.

On the other hand, no one will go outside unless absolutely necessary. That means lots of people will be looking for something to do. Like read a book. Like read my books, maybe. So maybe January sixth was a lucky choice of publication dates.

Okay, I confess. I actually uploaded Wol

Okay, I confess. I actually uploaded Wolf Legend to Amazon a week ago because I needed to provide the buy link to the book blog places and I couldn’t get the buy link until I actually published the book. So anyone who looked would have found it on Amazon any day during the last week. Did anyone peek?

Lately I find myself having to remember

Lately I find myself having to remember to breathe. Because, though I’ve published e-books before, this one is somehow different. Wolf Legend is going out into the wide, wide world with what I consider to be at least a smattering of publicity and marketing. Not what many books have, maybe not even what most books have, but more than my previous books had and what I hope will be sufficient notification that people who might be interested in this kind of book will know it exists. And that’s the goal of marketing. Not to force sales to people who aren’t interested but to find those who are and present them with the opportunity to read something they may enjoy.

I’m making soup today. It’s a winter t

I’m making soup today. It’s a winter thing. Soup is wonderful in cold weather and winter provides the necessary quiet hours for it to cook. Today definitely qualifies on both counts. According to the weather people, the Polar Vortex is now over Minnesota. That’s the pool of cold air at the top of the world.

Which made me think of a book that’s still being worked out in my mind. I plan for it to be based in a really cold place. Like the glaciers that, in my story, will be once again creeping down the USA as a new ice age begins. So when I heard the term Polar Vortex I knew I had the title for that book. What do you think?

Wolf Legend

 

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                 NO ONE CAN KNOW WHAT A WOLF IS THINKING.

  RIGHT ?

 WRONG!!

What do you do when your brothers get sick and can’t take their client to an island as promised? They tell  you that you can have the fee and you know it’ll go a long way towards defraying your college tuition. Of course the client is a professor at your college but he’s nothing to you. His specialty is wolves and he believes he’ll find some on the island. A fools’ errand because there are no wolves on that island but he’ll pay whether he finds wolves or not.

When that happened to Jane, she checked her finances, packed her knapsack and cast off for an easy week’s work.

Then the largest wolf she’d ever seen charged through their camp and connected mentally with her and invited her to come for a visit to sort out this strange psychic connection they seem to share. What did she do? She followed it (and Buck followed her) through a cave into another universe where her psychic connection to the alpha female of the wolf pack was all that kept them alive.

When they finally returned to their world, they brought back an injured pup to be healed in spite of the fact that the pup, Snowball, would become a huge, dangerous predator in a world where it didn’t belong. As time passed, Jane’s psychic connection was all that kept the pup safe from the world and the world safe from the pup.

But the pup wouldn’t stay a pup forever and they were forced to consider its future.  Should they return a wolf that they had trained not to kill to a world where it must kill to survive? Or should they keep a huge, dangerous predator in a world where its true identity cannot be kept secret forever?

And which of them should care for the wolf pup if it stayed in our world? Jane, who shared a mind link with it? Or Buck, the wolf researcher with the knowledge to assess its needs? And what about the alternate world? Can they keep its existence a secret?

Dogs and wolves are related. They can in

Dogs and wolves are related. They can interbreed. So why are they so different? Because dogs read human emotions and wolves don’t. Unless the wolf shares a mind link with a human, like Snowball in Wolf Legend. Unfortunately, it’s a story. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was true? Wouldn’t you like to know how wolves think? Or maybe not if all you’d get from the wolf was that you could be a tasty snack. Or if the wolf was laughing at you for being such a wimpy, weakling.

I saw a meteor the other night. And I sa

I saw a meteor the other night. And I saw another on TV that was huge. Flashes of light in the night sky. Beautiful. And both of them made me think of my next book,Earth Legend. It’s the third of the Legends trilogy. It’s about life in a space ship. Yes, I know Earth Legend is an odd title for a story that takes place in a space ship, but this ship isn’t like most ships plying the cosmos. It’s a tiny replica of Earth that’s hurtling through space, sustaining ten thousand people as they span the distance between stars. And between Earth and an Earth-like planet the descendants of the original crew plan to colonize. A multi-generational space ship that’s as much like Earth as possible so the children and grand-children of the original crew will know what life on a planet is like.

Only two more days left in 2013. I’m lo

Only two more days left in 2013. I’m looking forward to 2014. Lots of plans. Three books in the pipeline. I wonder how much I’ll actually get done. At least two, but I’m aiming for all three. And I know a lot more about marketing than I did at the beginning of 2013. In theory, I know how to spread the word. But I also know that all my big plans require a substantial commitment of time. I hope I’m up to it. I am up to it. I know I am.