Good morning!
WELCOME TO PIT STOP NUMBER ONE!
LOVE TO THE RESCUE BLOG TOUR
March 6, 2013
On day one of the LOVE TO THE RESCUE BLOG TOUR, I mentioned that the original title for the book was Red Rover. I promised to relate the story about the change, and I’ll do that today. But first, a little insight into Rover and his personality.
Rover is a very good dog, and Amy’s nickname for him is Big Guy. Most readers fall in love with him. Of course, like all dogs, the big guy tests his new owner.
The morning after Rover is adopted, my heroine wakes up to discover him sleeping on the bed with her despite the fact he was snuggled up in his own bed on the floor when she fell asleep the night before. Amy and Rover have a discussion about bed ownership and he remains in his own bed after that. Also, Rover enjoys an encounter with a feather pillow later in the story, and I’m certain you can imagine what happens there! Like most rescued pets, Rover settles into his new forever home quite well considering the abuse and neglect he’d experienced prior to being adopted.
At the end of the book, the reader learns about Rover’s past owners and how the dog came up for adoption. The poor guy survived quite the ordeal, but he has found a wonderful home with Amy.
I’m actually allergic to dogs that shed like Rover. That’s one reason why I have always owned small non-shedding dogs like Kelly and Beau and Candy. But I love Irish setters and their beautiful red coats.
As I’ve mentioned, the original title for the book was Red Rover because of the dog’s coloring and his name. Remember the kid’s playground game? Who doesn’t remember playing Red Rover as a kid?
But, I required a tagline (the description that runs across the top of the cover). I asked for help with this little problem at one of my writer group meetings and several suggestions were put forth. None of them seemed right. And then Love to the rescue… was suggested, and everyone in the room, including me, knew we had a winner.
I lived with that wonderful tagline for several days, and the more often those words ran through my mind the more I loved them. Finally, I decided to make it the title of the book. (Smiling face and a happy dance followed this decision). Of course, now I had a problem again. No tagline. Back to square one.
Several ideas ran through my mind and were offered to friends for their opinions, but none of them seemed right to any of us. I required something that summed up the entire essence of the story about a rescued dog, a widow and a widower, and a little girl who’d lost her mother. And then one day ‘Rescued paws meets troubled hearts…’ popped into my head. I just KNEW I had a winner!
Due to my allergies, perhaps I’m enjoying Rover vicariously through Amy and the story that brought them together. Who wouldn’t want to own a gorgeous dog like Rover? If it wasn’t for these darn allergies…
Thank you so much for dropping by today. Anyone leaving a comment will be entered to win one of ten digital copies of When Dreams Collide, the sequel to A Bandit Creek Miracle. Winners will be drawn at the end of the blog tour on March 15th. And check out the special ‘Irish’ blog that will be posted right here on my website on March 17th. Rover isn’t the only one who is ‘Irish’!
Next stop on the blog tour is tomorrow, March 7, 2013 at Happy Tails and Tales http://magluvsya03.wordpress.com/ where I will discuss the various ways shelter staff and volunteers cope with the heartbreak and stress of working with abused animals on a regular basis.
Hope to see you there!
