So I’ve got this novel, you see.<\/p>\n
I love the concept. It’s a first person novel, narrated by a woman who is an animal control officer.<\/p>\n
And she’s got problems.<\/p>\n
Man problems, for starters. Her ex-fiance has shown back up in her life. And here, she thought she was completely over him.<\/p>\n
Before you know it, she also ends up with dog problems — particularly when she stumbles on evidence of a dog fighting ring that is out of her official jurisdiction but very much on her conscience.<\/p>\n
I first drafted Loose Dog<\/em> several years ago. Shopped it to exactly one agent, who requested a full, but eventually passed on it.<\/p>\n I should probably have kept pushing, but instead I set it aside and wrote Libby<\/em>, and a bit after that Can Job<\/em>.<\/p>\n And you know what? That was the right decision. Because what that one agent told me is that Loose Dog<\/em> was well-written but needed work on pacing. So I focused on improving my plotting, and as you can see from my Amazon reviews, plotting is one of the things readers like about my novels.<\/p>\n So now I’m back to Loose Dog<\/em>, and my first New Year’s resolution for 2012 is to tweak it until I absolutely love it.<\/p>\n Get ready, world :-)<\/p>\n UPDATE: Out now…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’ve got this novel, you see. I love the concept. It’s a first person novel, narrated by a woman who is an animal control officer. And she’s got problems. Man problems, for starters. Her ex-fiance has shown back up … Continue reading