About Year of the Dog : A month or two ago, I remembered an old manuscript I had completed but which hadn’t sold. It was a contemporary romance meant for Zondervan, titled Year of the Dog . The book had gone into the pipeline and I even got another title ( Bad Dog ) and a cover for it, but eventually my editor at the time decided she didn’t want to publish it, for various reasons. She instead requested a romantic suspense, and so I cannibalized some of the characters from Year of the Dog and thrust them into the next book I wrote, which was Protection for Hire . Honestly, I didn’t take a lot from Year of the Dog to put in Protection for Hire , aside from character names and a few relationship ties. I was originally thinking I’d post Year of the Dog as-is on my blog as a free read, but then it occurred to me that I could revamp it into a romantic suspense and change the setting to Hawaii. It would work out perfectly as (yet another) prequel to the Warubozu series and introduce
Cool blog, i just randomly surfed in, but it sure was worth my time, will be back
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Biby Cletus
Or how 'bout this?
ReplyDelete"You think I really care that your plot just took a nose dive?"
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"I'm not budging until you make me more doggy treats."
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"Yeah, that's what you said last time I tracked dirt in the house."
Give her a good scritch for me!
Um ... you know ... that may be a guilty look. Hmmmm ... ; )
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