Hello strangers!

I’ve just poked my head out of my writing cave after an extended (read: panicked) endeavor to get book 3 of my Keeper Chronicles to my editor.

I’m so very happy to say the book is out of my exhausted hands, and is in  the capable hands of my editor who will have to deal with problems like the fact that that even though I know the difference between “its” and “it’s”, my fingers type “it’s” every time.

Every. Single. Time. (You’re welcome, editor Karen.)  😬

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Before my email hiatus, I’d been putting funny pictures of guinea pigs in my newsletter because they make me happy. But each time I get people writing me back telling me how cute my guinea pigs are.

Which makes me feel like a big fat liar because they aren’t my guinea pigs. I don’t have guinea pigs.

I don’t actually have any pets. I had a dog growing up, who I obviously loved, but we currently don’t have any animals. I know there are people who are appalled at that idea, yet there it is.

After my comment a few weeks ago that 99% of people find dragons more interesting than common lizards, Vicky sent me a picture of her bearded dragon pet, which is a lizard, who she awesomely named Toothless.

So clearly there are people who love both dragons AND lizards.

My personal lack of pets is inconvenient when writing an email newsletter because everyone says, “If you have nothing to talk about, talk about your pets! Everyone loves pets!”

And I get that, but what am I going to do? Make up a pet?

OHMYGOSH I could make up a pet!

Not one that anyone would actually believe is real, of course.

That feels shady and I’m not that big of a jerk. But I could have an obviously pretend pet.

The obvious choice is dragon.

A dragon puppy, probably. But maybe there’s something better?

You can rest assured that I will get back to you on this. 

In the mean time, please comment with ideas for what sort of fantastical creature I should adopt. Gryffon? Pixie? Baby phoenix? 

I wonder where one goes to pick up such a pet?

(Note from the author upon re-reading: this ramble was brought to you by the word ‘obvious’. Obviously.)