Great news! The paperback version of Something Furry Underfoot fits perfectly in most holiday stockings! Not to mention, at $8.55 on Amazon, it’s quite a stocking stuffer steal. But in case you can’t part with $8.55 you have three–yes that’s 3–opportunities to enter into sweepstakes for a free copy of my book: Lisa Taron, a.k.a. […]
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Fun things have been happening with my book, Something Furry Underfoot! Today, The Pet Blog Lady posted my guest post on her web site–she has 25K followers! My post is a fun, bubbly write-up that includes cute photos of some of the pets in my book. So check out this nifty guest post: http://www.petbloglady.com/2013/12/something-furry-underfoot-celebrating-all-kinds-of-pets.html. Also,
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About two weeks ago, I saw @Pickupthatpoop was not only following me on Twitter, they were reading my humorous, touching memoir about pets called Something Furry Underfoot. @Pickupthatpoop’s singular cause is to get people to pick up their dogs’ poop. And since they’re helping me out, I figured the least I could do is to write
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A lot of people get their kids hamsters, mice or gerbils as pets. And the thing is, most of these small fuzzies only live 1-3 years. Here’s 10 Things to Know to make those good years for your fuzzy pal: Most pet stores will send your small fuzzy home in a cardboard box. We live 7
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Today is National Cat Day, so congratulations to all the happy kittens and cats out there and all the happy people who own cats!! In honor of National Cat Day I wanted to share some things I’ve learned about cats that may help other people before they run out and get a cat, or kitten, for
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This is a photo I took of Winston, one of our five-month-old puppies. He melts my heart every time I look into his eyes. This is Snickers, our other five-month-old pup. When he posed next to the bay window, I snapped this photo. Again, it’s the eyes that get me every time! Thanks
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To get the word out about Something Furry Underfoot, I hired two marketeers, as I call them, which are people who market things like books. One marketeer is Jenkins Group, a book marketing company in my home state of Michigan. They got me set up with something called ReviewDirect which reaches something like 18,000 librarians, book stores,
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It’s been almost a month now since Mark and I drove from Michigan to Pennsylvania to look at the puppy Mark fell for that we named Winston . . . . . . and also came home with a pal for Winston that we named Snickers. I’ve never had two puppies at one time. Here’s
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Thank you for all the great name suggestions for our two puppies. The Name the Puppy Contest ended on September 6 and after intense debate, Mark and I selected the two winning names: Snickers and Winston. The winners of the contest are Janet Peterson, my cousin from Alabama, and Virginia Lydic, a.k.a. Stepkid #1 who
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If you know Mark or read Something Furry Underfoot, you probably realize that when it comes to pets Mark is rather uncontrollable–he blinks and another new fuzzy shows up in my house. So, it probably won’t come as too much surprise that Mark went exactly three days without a dog in the house before he went online in
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