Part #3 of our chat with romantic suspense author, Linda O. Johnston LUV: Tell us about your love of dogs and how they appear in your books. Linda: I’ve always been a dog lover. A dogaholic. A cynophilist! When I was a child, I thought I would become a veterinarian, but I learned that I’d have to cut animals open to help them and save their lives, so gave up that idea. I’m also a hypocrite. I very much believe in adopting rescue dogs, and even wrote a mystery series about a pet rescue organization. But I’m addicted to Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and because of their inherent health issues I’ve acquired mine from reputable breeders who try to breed out those issues. My protagonists in almost all my stories own dogs—mostly except for those Colton stories, where I’m told what to write to fit the series, which is enjoyable. But in my own stories, I can also appreciate my protagonists and their dogs and hope my readers do too! I don’t include Cavaliers in most of my books since I didn’t want to overdo it, but in my first mystery series, the Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mysteries, Kendra was a lawyer who lived in the Hollywood Hills with her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Lexie. I was a practicing lawyer at the time, I live in the Hollywood Hills, and one of my Cavaliers at that time was Lexie. But though Kendra kept tripping over dead bodies and had to solve the mysteries about them, my only dead bodies were on my computer screen. #QOTD - Do you have a pet?

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-11-29 20:00:04 UTC