Pet Spotlight: Freida McFadden and KitKat

We adopted our cat KitKat when she was five years old. My husband brought her home from the shelter in her brand new carrying case, and she peered back at me from within the case with her yellow eyes.  When she timidly emerged from the case, my two kids...

PET SPOTLIGHT: ANNIE WARD AND IZZY

Otherwise known as “Baby Doggins” by my two boys I grew up on a thirty-acre farm in the Midwest. We had six Irish Setters that roamed free back in those days, and it seemed like we always had a litter of puppies to look after in our basement. I moved away at...

Pet Spotlight: Leah Konen and Farley

Writing tends to be a lonely profession. You’re in a room, on a screen, dealing with nothing but your own imagination and, in my case, twisty murder plots. When I began writing The Perfect Escape, a girls’ weekend gone wrong set in Catskill, NY, I had also just...