Hey, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Miriam
Newman and her new book, “Rescued”! For
other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the
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Be sure to make it to the
end of this post to enter to win a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Miriam
and to increase your chances of winning!
Thanks for stopping
by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Also, I would like to point
out that Miriam Newman is donating 100% of ALL proceeds from this
book sales to Home Free Animal Rescue in Red Bank, New Jersey!!! As if there wasn’t already a fabulous reason
to buy this book – now the money you spend will be going to help rescue the
dogs, like the one you will be reading about!!!
Rescued
by Miriam Newman
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GENRE: Non-Fiction
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BLURB:
What
do you do when you are alone in the world? If you're a nice middle-aged lady
with a social conscience, you go to your local shelter and adopt a rescue dog.
Of course, sometimes it isn't only the dog who needs to be rescued. That's when
life might send you a Dancer-Dog.
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EXCERPT ONE:
“We’re
home,” I said in that tone you use when you give a dog the good news, and her
soft ears pricked. She sat up, looking
eagerly out the window. She hadn’t come
to any palace, just a hundred-year-old Victorian cottage swamped with evergreens,
bamboo and a lot of weeds I never found time to whack. But it boasted a fascinating yard I had
already decided to have fenced in despite the cost. Sam and I walked the perimeter of the
proposed yard so the dog could pee copiously once more, and then my friend had
to take her leave of us. She had been
walking Dancer and the dog seemed a trifle confused when I took the leash, as
though she had considered Sam her new owner, but when I led her into a warm
place that smelled like food, she went right in.
Kitty,
accustomed to dogs, actually deigned to thump down from the rocking chair to
greet us. The next thing I knew, I was
flattened against the solid oak door as a rampaging whirlwind ripped out of my
unprepared grasp. The cat had MOVED--God
save the mark!—and Dancer responded instantly.
Poor Kitty, who hadn’t run that fast since her youth, whipped up the
slippery wooden steps. She was able to
make good her getaway because Dancer had never before encountered steps. The dog thrashed at the bottom, lunging in
impotent fury, unable to deduce how to get upstairs.
“No!”
I admonished when I could catch my breath.
“Bad dog! No chase!”
She
looked at me as if I was crazy.
“Oh,
come on,” I said, relenting. “Let’s
eat.”
“I
was just about to,” her expression said.
“Where did that cat go, anyway?”
Kitty
had gone to the attic. She stayed there
for a long time and she must have had telepathy with Smudgie, the barn cat,
because I didn’t see old Smudge for days.
Her
food disappeared and so did she.
There
followed a delightful afternoon and evening of snoozing on the couch with the
dog tucked in the same position she had assumed with Sam, in this case flat on
top of me with her nose between my neck and shoulder. As long as her eyes were hidden, that tuck
seemed to say, she couldn’t spot anyone coming to take her away from
heaven. A wave of protective warmth
suffused my heart. This dog must have
been through hell. Who knew what awful
things had happened to her? Well, her
troubles were over. I would see to that.
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GUEST POST:
Describe Your Book Cover and How It Came About:
I
think my book cover gives an unexpected insight into the writing of this book,
because: It’s Not a Romance!
Now
if you know anything at all about my work and have picked yourself up off the
floor, read on. As a romance author, I
am truly not a one-trick pony. I have
written early Medieval Romance…fantasy romance…science fiction
romance…historical fantasy romance…and even a Bardic romance. I have written poetry—lots of poetry. The one thing I had never written was
non-fiction.
While
flirting with every form of romance, even going so far as to write one book in
a pub in Ireland, I really thought THAT WAS IT.
Returning home, I continued my absolute infatuation with the subject,
but then an odd thing happened. Well,
maybe not so odd—not at the outset, anyway.
I got a dog.
Dancer
turned out not to be any dog. That dog
was need in a brindle coat. She was an
emotional vampire. I was as hooked on
that little pit bull mix as I had ever been on one of my imaginary heroes and
she was real. Oh, she was happy enough
to lie at my feet while I banged out an epic.
In fact, she was thrilled, because it took a long time and I didn’t
move. From her standpoint, it was the
best thing I ever did.
But
every dog has to go out…sometime…and out I went, and then the fun began. There were adventures with a whirlwind
runaway dog, a fox-chasing dog, a horse-challenging dog, a dog that caused my
neighbors to say I was crazy. Because
only a crazy person would have put up with her.
She ate my house. She ate her
crate. I expected to see the red-striped
legs and black shoes from The Wizard of Oz sticking out from under the
foundation at any time, and the body underneath would have been mine.
I
survived, barely. And for nine insane
but glorious years, that dog was my writing companion, and then she was gone
but never forgotten. I had to write her
story…just literally had to…and I had to rescue dogs. Rescue them I did, dog after dog, and finally
the one I adopted was my second Dancer Dog.
Tia was so much like Dancer that it was uncanny, she even looked like her,
and when my photos of Dancer proved too old and grainy to grace the cover of
the book I wrote for her, Tia was my model.
That
is why there is a brindle pit bull on the cover of my book Rescued, which is
not about romance. It is about
love. I hope you will enjoy it.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Fantasy
poetry driven by myths and legends has been my passion for as long as I can
remember. I was published in poetry before catching the romance writing bug. I
bring that background to my writing along with a lifelong addiction to horses,
an 18 year career in various areas of psychiatric social services and many
trips to Ireland, where I nurture my muse. My published works range from contemporary
fantasy romance to fantasy historical, futuristic, science fiction and
historical romance. Currently I live in rural Pennsylvania with a “motley crew”
of rescue animals. You can see my books at www.miriamnewman.com.
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CONNECT WITH MIRIAM:
Website:
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Email:
mrmireland@aol.com
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BOOK BUY LINKS
& BOOK PROCEEDS DONATION INFO:
**100% of ALL book proceeds will be donated to Home
Free Animal Rescue in Red Bank, New Jersey!!!**
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Miriam will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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