Punctuality

It is Saturday, and I am celebrating Punctuality for our Friday Blog Hop.

I have never been late for anything. Planes, trains, dates or work. Except once: Working in Vienna (Austria, that is), my roommate and I had been solving the problems of the world the prior evening - with a little too much sweet Red Currant Wine (don't EVER do that!). Instead of phoning in sick (which I was), I frantically hopped onto a streetcar and tore into the office where the receptionist happily told me: "The 'Herr Generaldirector' (CEO) is waiting for you." I am sure the elegant man didn't believe my stuttered excuse that I was at the dentist, and ultimately transferred me to the States (I sometimes wonder if that was his punishment--just joking because I am still here forty years later).

I still live by the clock especially to wake up. My alarm goes off at 5 A.M. That purring in my ear and those cold noses in my face are impossible to ignore.

Pasha and Lilliput waiting for the clock to strike 5 AM.

Celebrating the Stars

It's Friday and I need something to celebrate. Maybe I should mention that my new novella Shadow Sanctuary received its first 5-star review.

What does that have to do with my "animal blog?" First, that's the one I am using for our hopping (through the blogs, that is), and--come to think of it--there are two cats in that novella; one domesticated--the other wild. How is that for an excuse to brag?


I hope you'll also check out my previous post about "Authors and their Tootsies." (There is a theme that runneth through this blog...don't you know?)



Authors and Their Tootsies

Before you get the wrong idea about the title, this picture is of

Author Lee Hanson with Toots,

her “grand-pet.” The darling dog is the star of her daughter’s family.

Lucky Lee has another shining star on her hands: Julie O’Hara, her intrepid body language expert in the highly successful Julie O’Hara Mystery Series. Speaking of stars, all three novels are rated four and five stars on Amazon. Here’s an inside tip… the author’s favorite is book two, Swan Song, about a beautiful young woman who turns up dead one morning in a swan boat on Lake Eola, smack in the middle of a jewel-like park in Downtown Orlando. You’ll never guess who did it…

Check it out here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JI3P6

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PS:  There is another Tootsie in my Pasha’s life:

She is the one occupying the middle of the back cover of his book (print version).

And while she does not belong to an author, her adoring human is that other most appreciated ingredient in an author’s life: an avid Reader.

Sweet Tootsie (Another Shelter Rescue and one of Pasha's Buddies)