Rita Mae Brown co-authors her books
with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown.
Some writers have horses in their
books. In my Hawkins’ Ranch series it takes place on a ranch in Montana and
there are several horses. Many of the characters have their own horses. And in
HUNTED the first book in the series I have a Merle Australian Sheepdog, named
Blue. He also appears in MISSING. In Targeted the heroine finds a scruffy white
terrier, named Lucky.
In my other published Holly Devine,
Assistant PI series, she has a black Scottie dog or Scottish terrier (also known
as an Aberdeen Terrier). I named him Bruce, after Robert the Bruce, King of
Scotland.
I usually write a dog into most of
my stories. I have two dogs of my own. I’m sure you’ve seen them on my site.
They’re Shiba Inu’s, Japanese Hunting dogs, called Yoshi and Sachi. They’re
family.
Do you write about pets? Do you
have pets in your books? Do you like to read about pets? I’d love to hear about
them, or your favorite books with pets in them.
I think having pets makes us better humans. I love my puppies and got puppy prints tattooed on my foot. I've not added dogs or cats to my stories but I've enjoyed when they are in other stories. Thanks for sharing photos of yours with us.
ReplyDeletePuppy prints tattooed on your foot? What a cute idea.
DeleteI have a dog in all my books except one. They are like secondary characters and are involved in my stories. I also have a ghost horse in another story along with a dog. I can never kill off one of my dogs.
ReplyDeleteA person after my own heart. A ghost horse? What a cool idea.
DeleteWhich book is that?
Hi, Beverley: Sometimes, I add a pet. And yes, I've named them after my own. lol. I wrote about a pesky bug once--does that count?
ReplyDeleteHey Vicki, A bug definitely counts - pesky hmmm?
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Hi Beverly, I'm big on pets. In my mystery series there are two cats, Stalin and Churchill. Stalin is catnapped in the first book, but he arrives home safely. I would never kill off a pet and when an author does, I stop reading. Even if an innocent animal (not necessarily a pet) is killed in a book, I usually put it down.
ReplyDeleteIn Ordinary Thunderstorms (a great book btw), the sociopath killer hooks up with a dog. I worried and worried about that dog. In fact, it reached a point where the dog might jeopardize the killer's safety. The killer (who would kill a person on a dime) had to kill the dog. BUT, he couldn't do it. In my view the author created a perfect villain in that instance. He was indeed a killer, but he showed some humanity. How perfect is that?
When they killed the cat in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (another of my fav books), I almost stopped reading. But, by then I was hooked and could not do it.
Thanks for sharing. I may blog on this as well.
Hi Joan, great post. Ordinary Thunderstorms sounds like a great book with a well-developed villain. I agree - never kill an animal. If you do post about let me know. I'd love to read it.
DeleteI like animals in books.
ReplyDeleteYou're my kind of person. thanks for dropping by.
DeleteHi, Beverley:
ReplyDeleteThe big cats in my Chronicles of Kassouk series, are sometimes telepathic and often important as characters. Rascal, in Red Leopard, won the best animal character in a book for 2010. I have cats in almost all my books (except for medieval fantasy), sometimes small, sometimes big. I didn't realize it until a friend pointed it out to me. Now I make it a point to have feline characters. Of course, I have cats at home, too. They fascinate me and I love them dearly. I do not name my animal characters after my pets, but sometimes I name my pets after my animal characters. Go figure.
I love the big cats in your stories. Congrats on winning the "best animal character in a book?, - who knew there was such an award. Cats are wonderful characters in books. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteMy co-writer and I'd series totally has a pets (specifically a cat named Todd and a dog named Beau who is referred to as Divorce Dog). But since the series is multi-generational over a very long time line they aren't present in all the books. That said, any pet deaths happen between books, and they're remembered fondly by the characters in the text even after they are gone.
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