Catadora Tonks Tells Tales for #FuzzyFriday, and J-Dog Supports TNR

Hey, Catadora Tonks here. Or Tonks for short. I’ve taken over my Fur Mommy’s computer while she sits on the veranda with the Physicist and drinks her glass of wine. My Fur Mommy Christine Glover is the author of sensual, sizzling, emotional contemporary romances. But to me, she’s just the Treat Lady with a great lap for Fur Baby snuggles and cuddles.

I love my Fur Mommy, so when Golden Heart finalist Heather Leonard asked me to write a blog about her, I purred and said, “Sure, I’ll do anything for treat.”

Currently, my Fur Mommy is working on a story called THE ITALIAN TYCOON’S MARRIAGE BARGAIN. She’s in what she calls the “rediscovery process.” She’s been hauling character naming and writing craft books out of her awesome office and lugging them into the dining room. She likes to figure out her characters’ birthdays and personalities. What she doesn’t like is making a timeline, but ever since she sold her first book THE MAVERICK’S RED HOT REUNION to Entangled Publishing, she’s been making them because the editors like timelines. Yesterday, she told me she finds them useful in finding story holes.

Now, I’m a sweet and adorable Fur Baby and Christine spoils me so I don’t get disciplined. I’m not supposed to go on the counters or tables, but I do. She just picks me up, kisses me, and pets me. She does get annoyed at me when she prints her manuscripts out. I sit on the chair next to the printer and attack the papers when they shoot out of it. If you see a bite mark on any of her papers, that’s a Catadora Tonks’ seal of approval.

And you should see Christine’s office! It’s got a big window that overlooks the front yard, a basket of cat toys, and a sitting perch for me to look outside while she works on her revisions. If I get bored watching the birds, I jump onto her desk and knock things off (she scolds me, but she doesn’t sound mad at all. She sounds amused). I like to crawl onto her lap and try to capture her fingers while she’s typing. She tells me she’s not a toy, but I disagree. Aren’t all humans put on this planet to amuse cats? I think so.

My Fur Mommy’s process is called Crapper Pantser Fixer Upper. She does a story discovery where she builds characters, works out the story tropes (a trope is a mechanism to hook her characters together like a marriage of convenience, a secret baby, or enemies to lovers), and starts building the scene cards with times, dates, setting notes, and character points of view. Then she works out the emotional turning points because she believes characters and emotions drive the story’s plot. In the beginning she’s happy with her story but she gets mad and asks herself who the heck wrote this crap after she reads it. Then she spends days fixing it. She drinks a lot of wine during this phase of the process.

Christine works really hard to write her contemporary romances about two lost souls who find each other and discover home. Please buy her novella THE MOVIE STAR’S REDHOT HOLIDAY FLING  because Kitten Treats aren’t cheap. It’s modern Cinderella story with a cool twist. Jessie Sullivan is an ex marine who never gives up, despite the pins in her leg. And movie star Blake Johnston isn’t just a Big Screen Sex Machine. When a harmless dare leads to sizzling fireworks, Jessie and Blake generate some serious heat between the sheets. And it's more than Jessie could have imagined. Much, much more. But flings don't last forever. And in two weeks, Jessie will have to say goodbye to her red-hot Christmas fantasy...

I hear footsteps… got to go…

Catadora Tonks

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J-Dog has a crush on Tonks, so he dressed up. He wanted to remind you of the good work the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic does. They provide much needed low cost, high quality spay/neuter services. You can learn more about them on their Facebook page. 

One of the great things the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic does is a TNR program.  Trap-Neuter-Return involves trapping the cats in a feral colony, getting them spayed and neutered, adopting out kittens and friendly cats, then returning the adult feral cats to their territory and providing them with food and shelter.  TNR significantly reduces noise from fighting, odor from spraying, and more litters of kittens.  

J-Dog does all his shopping through AMAZON SMILE. Through this program, Amazon donates 0.5% of eligible purchase to a charity of your choice, like the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic.  J-Dog is giving away a $10 Amazon gift card (purchased through Amazon Smile to help the Spay Neuter Clinic) to one of the people who leaves a comment. Check back Wednesday to see if you won.

Up next week, Betty Bolte's fur baby takes over. It is going to be awesome. Can't wait!