I’m still getting the occasional hit on my Cover Dog Photo Contest posts from last summer. Thought I would let you know, I’m running another portrait contest. This one is a raffle to celebrate the launch of Maximum Security later this month.
It’s part of my online launch party on Facebook, Wednesday, November 20, from 7pm – 11 pm, EST. Participate in party activities to rack up entries. There will be lots of other prizes as well, but the grand prize is an oil painting of your dog from photos that you supply to me. No purchase is necessary to earn entries.
Go to the Maximum Security Launch Party Page to RSVP, and while you’re there, get your first entry by suggesting a caption for the photo of Buddy, a little troublemaker caught in the act of eating Grandma’s Christmas present.
If you’d like to study up for the trivia questions, half of these are from this sample of Maximum Security. The rest come from A Shot in the Bark and Drool Baby. Other activities do not require any special knowledge to participate.
Please feel free to invite anyone who likes dogs and mysteries – but then, who doesn’t?
It is so Cold today
The wind is Bold today
And I am Sold today
On staying in my bed.
Oh, No, the puppies said
No matter what your dread
We’ll dance upon your head
Until you see our way.
And so we’ll bark and bark
Eventually you’ll hark
You’ll take us to the park
So we can run and play.
(Sung to the tune of Tra-La-La Boom-de-ay)
I’m really excited about Maximum Security. It’s going to be another month before it comes out (November 21, Yikes!) and I can’t stand it, so I’m posting the first 10% here. This dog park mystery features my very own Max (yes, that’s her, above) as an escape artist (she’s playing to type). If you want to go straight to the dogs, skip the prologue and go to “Day 1.”
To get the PDF, click here > Maximum Security Sample
I hope you love it!
Here’s another picture, just because.
My response to Hugh’s latest blog post:
I feel like Dorothy, at the end of the Wizard of Oz, where she wakes up and pontificates about finding things in her own back yard. For three months I scoured the internet, looking for the perfect escape-artist cover-dog for Maximum Security. Doh. He lives next door.
Meet Simba. Simba Lives with Jerome Wilson, owner of Northside Grange Pet and Urban Farm Supply, where I get my grain-free kibble.
Simba is a bright and talented young man. I’ve known him since he came to live with Jerome as a pup less than a year ago. One day in July I was hanging over the fence and being neighborly. Simba has his own yard-within-a-yard, to keep him out of the garden. I noticed a small stock pallet leaning against the gate to Simba’s playpen, blocking the gap between the bottom of the gate and the ground.
“Does Simba ever try to escape?” I asked.
Turns out escape is one of his great pleasures in life.
Watch Simba in action.
Simba Wiggled through, only to meet his warden . . . er, owner, Jerome, on the other side.
I haven’t decided which picture to use yet because I don’t know which is my favorite. I’ll be sure to post the oil painting here when it’s done. Meanwhile, I’ve been playing with this image and I like it alot.
If you’d like to see some of my other entrants, click here and here.
Lia Anderson Dog Park Mysteries by C.A. Newsome 