My Second Reader Slideshow!

But first, a special message to those of you who had every intention of getting in on this one, but it just didn't pan out.  Wait, don't tell me.  Let me guess.  You have a life.  I get that.  Here's what you can do.  Send the darn thing anyway.  Anytime.  The fact that I've closed the second slideshow means I just opened to photo submissions for the third.  Jump in early, and I promise you won't miss the deadline, which will be months down the road.  It's something like the Never-Ending Story.  You send them, they will get used.

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More Kitty: Mouser the Hero

Mouser's fangs explain his name. No rodent survives an encounter with Mouser.

When I began this More Puppy/More Kitty meme, I never expected to feature not one, but two, heroes--pets who may well have saved their people's lives.

This one, Mouser, comes courtesy of Charmaine Coimbra, who writes, "When first-time visitors witness our cat's bold behavior I simply say, 'Mouser is spoiled and we don't care.'  There's a reason this 12-year old furball buddy is spoiled

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When I Found You Cover Reveal

So, yesterday I saw the final cover for the U.S. edition of my novel When I Found You.  I was going to wait and pipe up about it when the book is available (Soon!  Sooner than you're probably thinking!)  but it was just too pretty.  I had to share it with you now.

Of course, I will trumpet loudly when it's available for purchase (What kind of author would keep a thing like that from you?).  But I just had to do the sneak peek thing.

This is a real turning point between me and my U.S. adult readers.  You've been ordering from overseas and reading YA for quite a long time now.  Here come your books!

More news to follow.  I promise.

Second Hand Heart: Here in the US!

If you read this blog often, or have been to my site before, you may have heard me say that my UK-only titles, Second Hand Heart, When I Found You and the forthcoming Don't Let Me Go, would soon be available to U.S. readers.

Well, today's the day for Second Hand Heart as an ebook.  Today Second Hand Heart is available electronically on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, at a very attractive price.  Just follow the links in the previous sentence, and you'll see what I mean.

If you don't have an ebook reader, don't give up and don't tune out.  The paper version will follow very shortly, and I will announce it on this blog as soon as the

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More Kitty: Fauxgerty

My friend and reader Laur McSpadden was nice eough to share Fauxgerty for the More Kitty meme of this blog.

Laur writes: "Fauxgerty adopted me while I was attending Manchester College. I had no plans or desire to get another cat at the time, but there I was, sitting in front of the library, when this adorable orange tabby made a bee-line towards me from across the college mall. I knew what was happening as I saw his approach (I've been adopted by cats before), and I tried to explain to him that I appreciated the

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More Kitty: The Furrkids

Finally, a family of pets so big that I can't fit all of their names in the post title.  

This lovely house full of cats comes to me courtesy of reader and Facebook friend Pam Fogal.  I was always rather taken by the guitar-playing cat that is her Facebook profile pic.  You don't see that every day.

Pam writes:

"I would like to introduce you to the furrkids...

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