A new review!!! Love it!
http://tometender.blogspot.com/2015/01/jaguar-pride-by-terry-spears-heart-of.html
Spears once again provides a hot tropical romance with sexy jaguars and other exotic animals facing guns welding bad guys.
This is a very enjoyable and highly entertaining, Jaguar Pride won’t disappoint the shifter romance fan.~~Shauna
I’m going to a paranormal romance readers’ convention soon and so asked my publisher if she would send some donated copies of my books for bloggers that will be there and she said, yes! Soooo, that’s good news. I was disappointed to learn that they didn’t have a book seller at the book signing. We’re limited to bringing only 5 books from home to the signing. That’s awful. What do I bring? You know how this works. The book you didn’t bring is the one readers want. And this is open to the public!
When I went to the Dallas signing, it was awful. They had it open ONLY to conference attendees and hardly anyone showed up. Readers, that is. I had a couple fans bring books to autograph, but only sold one book. Driving made it easy to bring a variety. But without readers in attendance, it doesn’t matter.
I think it’s a travesty not to have books to sell at a signing especially when we pay so much to attend these functions, not only the cost of the convention, but the hotel and airfare. Not to mention the time away from our writing. She mentioned selling ebooks. Anyone can pick up ebooks online. You don’t need to go to a book signing for that. At least I had a number of bloggers who were interested in having books for special giveaways. They’ll be autographed. But I really want to reach my readers AT the event also. *sigh* It IS a readers event.
Okay, so we’re into training puppies some more. I do really well some days and other days, it’s a losing battle. Yesterday, I needed to finish editing A Silver Wolf Christmas. As of today, I need 11,100 words to catch up on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble. Yep, taking four days to edit this other book put me way behind on SEAL Wolf Diving. Soooo, I finished edits on Silver and am turning them in today, and then working on SEAL all day.
So on puppy training. They were up for 6 hours yesterday morning, wouldn’t take a nap, didn’t want them up on my lap since I’m trying to get Silver done, so I finally tried the crate. And that worked. Tried it this morning, but it’s not working.
But they were angels for about 2 hours yesterday and that forced me to keep working on SEAL for 2 hours straight until they woke. They ended up back on my lap later, because frankly, I didn’t have the time or patience (which it requires to train them right), to deal with making them nap in their beds yesterday. I really had to get Silver done. Now it is.
But now today, I’ve got to do the writing on SEAL, and so I’m going to have the same problem as before. Limited time and way too much to do.
Puppy Training Time
Training them to nap in bed
And it worked!
As you can see, they settled down in the other bed, and later, they moved around and were in two separate beds. But they slept and I could work undisturbed for a couple of hours. I had to keep putting them in the bed up above. You see Tanner’s look? Max is more resigned. Tanner is like, “You’re kidding me, right?” We had to do this over and over again. One would climb out or jump out, and then the other would. I kept taking the escape artist and putting him back in, whichever he was. It was funny that they didn’t both do it at the same time. They took turns. I was afraid they were just getting my attention and wouldn’t get the message. You know: negative attention is better than no attention. But they finally did and fell asleep.
next day, naptime
Yesterday it was absolutely a no go. They wouldn’t stay in the bed no matter what.
puppies slept in crate instead
No matter how much I tried to convince them to settle down in their bed, they wouldn’t. This was 6 hours of trying, on and off while I did edits. Soooo, I finally tried the crate and it’s near my desk, and voila, it worked. They have to nap. They get really cranky if they don’t.
They are now in their bed, so maybe….if they will. Or not. They’re playing tug of war with a chew stick. I finally put Tanner on my lap, I know, I’m so not an alpha, and he fell asleep. And then Max wanted up with us. And he’s all sighs and asleep. *sigh*
Sending Silver off so I can get back to work on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble!
Have a lovely Friday. Can’t believe it’s already Friday. *double sigh*
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Terry,
Wow what a great review but it’s a fabulous book so I’m not surprised.
Yay! On the edits.
I’m surprised Dallas didn’t have a signing. I hope the one in Dallas makes it worth your time & money.
Your puppies are adorable. Do you have a puppy proof room you can gate to lock them in while you’re writing? I shut myself in the study.
Thanks so much, Bonnie! I’m so behind on writing. Trying to do the edits I had been working on. I started SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble in the winter because SEAL Wolf Hunting is in the summer. Seasons can make a book seem really different. But I’m having to do a lot of research so it takes time. 🙂
Dallas had a signing, but they didn’t open it to the public. Just the conference attendees and barely anyone came to the signing, so it was a real wasted effort. If they’d opened it to the public, it might have been better. The one in Florida is a lot more of an expense for me since I have to fly, so that’s a disappointment that they don’t have a book seller there.
Thanks on the puppies. That’s great that you can shut yourself up in the study. I think when they get a little older, it won’t be so bad. They’ll be fully housebroken and won’t be getting into trouble. But for now, I have to watch them so much. I have them on my lap again, because they’ll sleep and I can edit and write. Otherwise, I’m spending so much time working with them to get them to do something, or watching that they don’t get into trouble, that I’m not getting my writing done and time is running out. I don’t really have a way to keep them from getting into trouble otherwise. I do have a little fence thingy, but I know if I stick them in that, they’ll just sit there and bark to be let out. I might try it today sometime though.