The Dog Whisperer and the Princess

Margot is a good dog, but she has issues. Even though she’s been in a loving home for many years now, living on the street left its scars. She hates loud noises; thunderstorms and fireworks are particularly hard for her. She gets along great with Guinness, but with other dogs, her timidity and playfulness are in conflict. This often causes her to charge and snarl at Rex, who can’t understand Margot’s moodiness when he tries to engage her in a game.

She got in trouble with the Dog Whisperer for her behavior during one of these incidents, and here’s what happened afterward.
photos here

Timeline

06-02-05 First author-to-author query re tentative narrator, TJB5
06-09-05 First character sketch, tentative narrator, TJB5
07-01-05 Synopsis created for TJB5; narrator, setting established
08-03-05 Summary, 2003 status of recurring characters (TJB1-4)
08-03-05 Plot development begins, TJB5
08-11-05 First outline drafted, TJB5
08-12-05 First summary of new secondary characters, TJB5
08-12-05 Detailed outline submitted to publisher, TJB5
12-19-05 Contract from publisher for TJB5

October 2005 to January 2007–TJB5 drafts, edits
January 2007–Final author edits, TJB5 manuscript

January 15, 2007–TJB5 manuscript, titled WHEN YOU DON’T SEE ME, submitted to publisher

That’s right. At 4:15 a.m., I drove through the most miserable rain ever to the airport post office to Express Mail these 355 pages:

Developing story, more details to follow 😉

The best combination: art, friends, and coffee

Today’s coffee cup is actually Tim’s. He left it over here a couple of days ago, Tom washed it, and I grabbed it this morning because it’s big and I NEED COFFEE.

On one of Jim’s visits to Houston, we went to a jewelry exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. Afterward, in the museum’s gift shop, Jim bought this cup for Tim.

San Diego Boy Gone Wild!

Thank goodness I can live vicariously through my friends. Steve recently went to an undisclosed location in Idaho near Sun Valley to elk-gaze. He said I could share these photos of elk in the wild. I asked if they smelled, and he said it was too cold to know. Since he’s from the city with the best weather in the country, I think twenty-degrees caused a huge shock to his system.

Beautiful landscape, magnificent animals. If they make you want to shoot something other than a camera, please don’t tell me, okay?