Check out these adorable
NovelTalk Author pets!
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Alyssa Brooks'
cat is so scared of the camera, she's jumping
right out of her boots! Meet Boots, aka Pretty
Baby, who technically belongs to Alyssa's daughter,
but since day one, assumed the position of Alyssa's
writing partner. Boots curls up on Alyssa's lap as
she works—sometimes preventing Alyssa from getting
up. Nothing like a sleeping cat for motivation to
keep writing and promoting!
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Nicole Byrd: Hi, all. This is my blue
point Balinese, Belle, and her favorite napping
place, a few feet from my computer. The perfect
writer's cat, she advises shameless self promotion.
:)
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C.J.
Carmichael's cat,
Penny, loves gingerbread. Or is it the candy? |
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Jacqueline Diamond: Formerly a very lonely
stray, this friendly cat answers to several names
depending on which member of Jacqueline Diamond's family
is calling him: Puppy, Blue or simply Cat. He thinks
he's a dog -- (usually) comes when called, stands on his
hind legs and beats on the French doors with his paws,
and will do anything for cuddles, even allow himself to
be wrapped in a towel and cuddled like a baby. |
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Cindy Gerard's
14 year old Brittany,
Boomer, wasn't so sure about sharing his house and couch
with anyone--especially a cat. But when 'Buddy' showed
up at the Gerard household this fall and figured out how
to get inside through the doggie door, his mission was
to make Boomer his, well, buddy :o) Looks like he
succeeded. |
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Laura Hayden:
We think Annabella may be from Canada. She
doesn't have a green card or any other papers,
but we do know she's 7/8 Border Collie and 1/8
Sheltie. She herds small reluctant animals,
furniture, walls, and people--anything she can
find--and hates doorbells, phones and people
sneezing. Some people call her neurotic. I
simply call her "Belly" for short.
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Shirl
Henke has a pair of utterly adorable tom kittens,
Inky and Pewter, whose destructive capacity rivals that
of a medium sized thermonuclear weapon. But just as life
without writing would be unimaginable, so would life
without cats. |
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Charlotte
Hubbard: Ramona, my soon-to-be-three
Border Collie, will tell you my success is entirely her
doing! She's the one who gets me out for walks and
Frisbee games each day, and then herds me back to my
office to write again!
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Charlotte
Hughes: Meet Rambo and Muffin, two spoiled
rotten Dachshunds I've owned since they were six weeks
old. I don't think Rambo knows Muffin is his sister
because he constantly tried to hump her during his teen
years. Don't mistake that for love because he
tried to hump my foot as well. He's over it now,
thank God! |
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Elle
James: Sweetpea the white Malti-poo and
Chewbaca (Chewy for short) the Yorkshire terrier are a
little over a year old. Shortly after I brought them
home, Sweetpea almost died several times. Between
intestinal worms and pneumonia it was touch-and-go for a
couple weeks. She made up for it! Now she rules the
roost and tells Chewy who's boss. Short on stature and
big on attitude, that's my girl. Chewy is the ultimate
lapdog. He'll follow you everywhere and likes it best
when he can curl up in your lap. I've learned to reach
over him to my keyboard although it's not much of a
reach. They each weigh around six pounds. With almost
all my children grown and gone, they're helping me
through the empty-nest syndrome.
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Linda O. Johnston finds that Lexie, her Cavalier
King Charles Spaniel, inspires her writing. Maybe
it’s because Kendra Ballantyne, the protagonist of her
Pet-Sitter Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime, is
inspired by HER dog Lexie, coincidentally also a
Cavalier! Or maybe it’s because Linda’s Lexie insists on
sitting on her lap while she writes...and her other
Cavalier, Sparquie, sits on her lap while she edits.
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USA Today
Bestselling author
Susan Kearney was having her author photo shoot
when Boston Terrier George insisted on joining the shot.
George loves to be the center of attention and he was
actually color coordinated for the picture. |
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Ashley
Ladd: Andy
is a Pembroke Corghi who is our oldest pet and our alpha
dog. He's our watchdog and VERY protective. He's a
sweetie to the family but watch out if he doesn't know
you.
Meiko is a Husky who was
adopted to be our watchdog but who is a real sweetheart.
He loves to jump on me when I come in the door—like Dino
does to Fred Flintstone. He's just about as large as
Dino and when he stands on his hind legs, he looks me
eye to eye.
Although you can't see
her paws in this picture, Prissy is a Hemingway, or in
other words, a polydactyl cat. This means she has 6
digits on her paws, as does her daddy. She's almost all
black except for a little patch of white on her tummy.
Her daddy, Dion, is pure black. Prissy was born on
October 30th so we call her our Halloween cat. We have
five cats in all, two of them Hemingways. Prissy's the
baby girl out of all our cats and all our pets. |
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Julianne
MacLean:
This is Molly, our
darling Havanese who is almost one year old in this
picture. She is like my shadow when I'm home. She
follows me around everywhere, and loves to roll over
for treats. (I don't even say "roll over" anymore.
As soon as I take the treat out of the bag and look
down at her, she's rolling across the floor.) |
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Dana
Marton: These are my two blue parakeets,
Lady and Tom. They are both very cheerful and get along
fabulously well. They love looking out the window
(probably planning the big breakout). :-)
Since I last posted the picture of our
parakeets, Lady passed away. Our family was also
blessed with a new addition, however. Her name is Peanut
and she's a beagle puppy. We just absolutely adore her.
She's the cutest little thing. Very well behaved, too.
Only ate one book so far, and that after I finished
reading it. |
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Pam McCutcheon’s
terrier/poodle mix Mo turned four years old on New Year’s Day 2007. A
rescue from Dreampower, she likes to lay under Mom’s
desk while she’s writing. (Mo is female—the other
two puppies were named Larry and Curly.)
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Maureen McKade's pets vie for the opportunity to
curl up in the snuggler chair. Autumn, her
five-month-old French Brittany Spaniel, likes to curl up
with her 19-year-old cat Tasha, who isn't real thrilled
about the idea, but puts up with the precocious pup.
Paige, her 6-year-old French Brittany Spaniel, is a bird
hunting dog and usually claims the chair for herself or
shares with her daddy. But, of course, we would never
spoil our bird dog. ;-)
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Kathleen
O'Brien's Bichon Frise Lily was a Christmas
present from her husband two years ago. She's sweet,
adorable, and impossible to outwit! She finds it
unacceptable when Kathleen is chained to the computer on
deadline and has developed a rich repertoire of
distressed "whine" sounds to lure her out to play. |
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Lauren
Royal's
Birman cat, Mocha,
likes to sit like a person. In fact, he thinks he IS a
person. Or maybe a god...
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Deborah
Smith currently has eight cats--not
deliberately, it's just that her house in the woods is a
magnet for strays and abandoned pets. Two of her
oldest cats, Emmy and Oscar, died a few years ago.
Here's a painting of Emmy. Deb made it from an old
photograph she took one spring day, years ago, when Emmy
stretched out, sphinx-like, on a porch shelf in the
sunshine. |
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Maggie
is a seven-month-old apricot standard poodle belonging
to
Deb Stover.
Deb's
daughter, Princess Bonnie, thinks Maggie looks like
"Lion King." At night when it's time to tuck Bonnie, who
has Down Syndrome, in bed, Maggie will grab a corner of
the blanket with her teeth and tug it up over her along
with Mom (who uses her hands, not her teeth). :) Princess Bonnie says, "Good-night, Lion
King." |
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Vicki
Lewis Thompson: I first spotted
Eve wearing a leash as she led a Humane Society
volunteer through the aisles at PetSmart. That
little cat had attitude to spare and I fell in
love. One year later, I can't imagine life
without her. I'm sure she helps me write better
books.
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Bonnie Vanak's male Shih Tzu, Tiger, likes
looking out the bedroom window in Bonnie's office. Tia,
the female, would rather plop her head down on Bonnie's
Alpha Smart after a hard day at work writing.
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My
name is Sasha and I'm
Susan Vaughan's dog. I think I'm part border
collie and part husky. A van brought me from New Orleans
to a shelter in Maine, where my family adopted me. They
play with me and take me for lots of walks. I sleep near
Mama while she writes. She takes me for extra walks
sometimes when she's stuck on a scene. She tells me I'm
a good girl except when I roll in something yummy
smelling and when I don't come when I'm called because I
have a squirrel cornered. I don't get all the words but
I like when Mama sings me the Puppy Song:
I'm a puppy and I don't do what
I should.
I'm a puppy and I never do any good. |
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Carrie Weaver's demon cat Daisy, who lures the
unsuspecting with her fuzzy cuteness, only to tear them
to ribbons. She deigns to share her home with her
humans, two Tortie felines and one dog. Daisy was
named for a character in Carrie's first Harlequin
Superromance, The Road to Echo Point. A
character, coincidentally, who was known for her erratic
behavior. |
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Rebecca
York. Here are my three cats,
Harriet ("Harry"), Ozzie, and Aby ("the Beevel"),
watching their favorite show, "Video Catnip." In the
other picture, Ozzie (Harry's mother) is sitting on our
kitchen island, hamming it up for a TV crew. Ozzie and
Harry were both rescued, and I'm sure they're part Maine
Coon. The woman who fostered them named Ozzie Princess
Ozma. I wanted a name to go with that, but I couldn't
find a good one from L. Frank Baum. So I went with
Ozzie and, of course, named her daughter Harriet.
Harriet is the classic scaredy cat who runs away from
people. Ozzie is a real people cat who sits in on my
writers' group meetings.
Our third cat--the Beevel--is a purebred Abyssinian, the
daughter of two grand champions. She's also an escape
cat who will slip out the door when you're not looking
and prance around the front yard like a thoroughbred
racehorse. |
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