As promised — the Pet Blogger Challenge! If you’re here and you’ve already written a post answering the questions that Amy of GoPetFriendly.com and I posted last week, simply add the url to the Linky tool, below. If you haven’t written it yet but are inspired to do so, get cracking. You have until 11:59…
Ten Favorite Posts I Wrote in 2010…
… plus one semi-gratuitous guilty pleasure video Put out a challenge, take up a challenge. Yesterday, when Amy at GoPetFriendly.com and I were throwing down the gauntlet to pet bloggers to think and write about their blogs on January 10, Dr V. of Pawcurious was asking bloggers to choose their top 10 favorite posts of…
Take the Pet Blogger Challenge!
‘Tis the season for retrospectives, reflections, resolutions and other “re” words that describe paying uncharacteristically close attention to our lives. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago in Also Bullied By My Blog, my pal Amy Burkert at GoPetfriendly.com and I decided it would be useful — and we hoped, fun — to look…
Also Bullied By My Blog
I woke up this morning and said some very bad words to myself and to Frankie, who doesn’t take it personally when I curse. The problem? I had promised to post two runner up winners to my Is Your Dog Boring You? contest, and realized that I couldn’t — really, didn’t want to — chose…
Putting the Blog Back in BlogPaws
What with all the inspirational Be the Change posts that continue to pour out of the BlogPaws conference I’m almost embarrassed to say this: I went to BlogPaws to learn about selling books, blogging, and social media. And guess what? I did. As a conference that provided good, solid information — not to mention a…
My Year in Bookselling: 7 Things I Did Right
It’s been a year since the publication of Am I Boring My Dog and a bit of a roller-coaster ride. Sad to say, the reports about publishers not having the time or money to promote all but the most famous authors or the most topical books are true. Which is how I became a bookseller,…
Denver dreaming: Take me to your BlogPaws pets
Getting ready for the BlogPaws West conference involves finishing up a bunch of assignments that are not — shockingly enough — dog related. And I’m not going to be taking Frankie along to Denver because he’s not exactly a road warrior and the idea of dealing with needles and insulin and a carrier… well, I…
Versatile & Lovely Blogger Awards, Pet Edition
Confession: In the past year and a half, I received a Versatile Blogger award from Jana Rade of DawgBusiness and one from Sharon Castellanos of Grouchy Puppy, as well as a Lovely Blog award from Vera Marie Badertscher of A Traveler’s Library. And I haven’t passed them along. That is VBBK (Very Bad Blog Karma).…
Really shameless nomination request
It’s bad enough to request that people nominate you for a blogging award. It’s even more shameless when the idea to make the request on your blog comes from a competing blogger, my pal Roxanne Hawn. But it’s all for a good cause: The “Petties” (pet blogger awards), presented by DogTime, are all about helping animals,…
Revisiting the choir: You never know who’ll join
It’s a little ironic for me to be posting about preaching to the choir because: I’m a nonbeliever I grew up attending a synagogue, not a church, and synagogues don’t have choirs It’s a tired cliche, and I try to avoid those But the topic came up when Karen Friesecke, DIY queen and blogger at…