Hey, anyone wanna win a book with a story of mine in it?

[taste_is_sweet]

As I mentioned last week, I've got a story coming out in a new Dreamspinner Press anthology. :D







And here's the contest! I should have one trade paperback version of Don't Try This at Home and I'll definitely have eBook copies to give away. So, since my story Gordon's Cat is about animal hijinks, tell me an animal story!

Funny, freaky, interesting--anything but tragic, please!--animal stories! The one I like the best will get the trade paperback, and the next four best (I hope I get more than five people leave comments...) will get an eBook.

And of course you can buy it from Dreamspinner here.

Comments

[squeakyoflight.livejournal.com]

Oh I so want a book!

So, animal story *that you don't already know.* Um.

When Madelee and I were clipping the cats nails on the weekend, Zapho was really, really upset, as she is wont to be because she was abused as a kitten. So I've got both her front paws in one hand and the clipper in the other and Madelee is gripping her scruff and hanging on for dear life, because we both know that, if Zapho gets loose, we are dead. The cat will kill us. There will be nothing left for the compost bin.

So Zapho is freaking out, and Madelee, being just a small girl, freaks out herself a little bit, and lets go of the cat's scruff. And Zapho immediately uses her newfound freedom of movement to lean her back-leg on my forarm and - nothing. She didn't even extend her claws. Here this neurotic cat is, so upset that she's growling and spitting and swearing at us in fluent *kitty* and yet, she doesn't hurt me at all

And it felt really good because, afrer nearly six years of being with us, she has finally figured out that we aren't going to hurt her, and she is safe. And that made me really happy.

=^.^=

Xox

Squeaky

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

That is really lovely. Zapho reminds me of Chloe, who still is terrified if we pick her up or move too fast, but who's started coming to me to demand to be petted. :)