I love to read. If you’re reading this, you probably love to read, too. I can get completely lost in a fictional world, but sooner or later my dogs insist I take them out. Or the cats get really obnoxious about that whole food-in-the-bowl-now thing. That’s when I reach for one of my trusty bookmarks. Or, as one friend and avid reader calls them, “Quitter Strips.” How could we read without them? Whether they are automatically inserted by our trusty…
By G. S. Norwood Sometimes the Universe gives me a cat. I write urban fantasy, so I’m fairly open to the idea of magical energies at play in our mundane world. Still, I had no intention of adopting a cat in October of 2019. When my oldest cat, Scrap, died that July, I was comfortable with the idea of being reduced to a two-cat household. “If the Universe gives me a cat, I’ll have another cat. But I’m not going…
By G. S. Norwood Will there be cats in space? And how, exactly, will that happen? Here at Weird Sisters, we have given dogs a lot of love. There are the extremely brilliant XK9s in Jan S. Gephardt’s novels, What’s Bred in the Bone, the upcoming A Bone to Pick, and her new novella, The Other Side of Fear. Ms. Eddy Weekes has a run-in with Hell Hounds in Deep Ellum Pawn. You’ve even met my own Texas Pack—as scruffy…
By G. S. Norwood Here at Weird Sisters we love dogs. We thought our readers might like a glimpse of the characters that make up The Texas Pack who lives with me. Yes, author Jan S. Gephardt spent several years researching canine cognition before she wrote What’s Bred in the Bone. As readers of her blog know, animal cognition is an emerging field of study. Every day we learn new things about how dogs and other animals experience and process…