Hello and Happy New Year!
My name is Dorothy Bodoin. I live in Michigan, an hour’s drive from the fictional Foxglove Corners in my cozy mystery series. I’m new to blogging but not to Coffee Time Romance. I’ve been visiting this enchanting site for a long time, and they’ve sponsored my monthly newsletter, so I don’t really feel like a newcomer.
I love to interact with my readers and have found many new friends who contacted me through on website, , or on Facebook.
I write romantic suspense and cozy mysteries, and have one Gothic romance, my only book set outside Michigan. My books are a blend of romance and mystery with a touch of the supernatural””sometimes light, sometimes heavier””and at least one collie. At last count, Jennet, the heroine of my Foxglove Corners series, has four collies. At present I have one, Kinder who appears in my books as Candy.
My most recent book, Spirit of the Season, was released last year in October, just in time for Christmas. It’s available at Wings ePress and Amazon as an e book or trade paperback.
Spirit of the Season starts with a winter apparition. My heroine, Jennet, sees an ice skater fall through the ice of Sunset Lake. Because this is Foxglove Corners, where the unusual is ordinary, by the time help arrives, the skater has vanished, along with the break in the ice.
While Jennet seeks to understand the story behind the phantom skater, she also finds herself having to deal with an unscrupulous collie breeder and facing danger of her own at Sunset Lake.
There’s plenty of romance in Spirit of the Season. Jennet and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, are practically newlyweds. Jennet’s neighbor and Crane’s uncle exchange wedding vows in a romantic New Year’s Eve ceremony, and Jennet’s best friend and her sister compete for the attentions of a handsome but clueless deputy who gives both girls the same Christmas present.
If you’d like to read the first chapter of Spirit of the Season, you’ll find it posted on my website under My Books.
To celebrate the beginning of 2011, there’s going to be a contest at Coffee Time Romance. The prize will be four of my books reprinted for Harlequin Worldwide Mystery BookClub. They are: The Cameo Clue, A Shadow On The Snow, Secret For A Satyr, and Snowhedge.
Get the details here and post a comment with your answer!
Good post! I’ve read Spirit of the Season and I thought it was great! I enjoy your writing and it’s nice to learn more about you. I’m looking forward to your next book.
As to the type of dog I’d be, I’m not sure. My husband tells me that sometimes he thinks I’m a pit bull hiding in a poodle’s body. Nah! Me?
Am I at the right place? Is this how a blog works? It’s a bit like sending an email. Well, if I’m at the right place and doing the right thing, then I have this to say: I’m the luckiest of bloggers since Dorothy and I are fellow classmates going back to grade school. As for being a dog, I see me as a little terrier.
And by the way, don’t blame me for any misspellings, I’m totally dependant on spellcheck.
Yep! You are in the right place. Welcome Shirley!
Hi Dorothy, You are a new author to me. Your books sounds very interesting. When I was a little girl, my grandmother had a collie. Now a days, we have a toy poodle who thinks she is a much bigger dog!
I am a Poodle like the one we had. I am wanting to follow my dh around when he’s working outside, I like being with him watching movies(not quite laying beside him though like Sam used to like to do), I like attention and I’m inquisitive of what’s going on outside.
You are new to me but would enjoy your stories.
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
I would say in would be a mutt as they are tjhe best dogs to have
horseunicornkey@aol.com
Hi Dorothy,
Great to hear about you and your awesome books!!! They ROCK! I’ve read every one of Dorothy’s Foxglove Series and almost every one of her other stand alone books. I LOVE them and always know it’s a good day when there’s a new Dorothy Bodoin book out. Her love of dogs is wonderful to see as I love dogs as well. Hmmmmmmm… I own a Havanese, so I’d have to say I’m like a Havanese – full of mischief and playful. 🙂 Keep writing, Dorothy. Can’t wait for the next one.
Suzanne
Enjoyed reading the comments. I guess I would be a Jack Russell terrier since I am hyper like they are and always on the go. I guess that is to say I am tenacious! However, I do not chew up my paperback books like my dog Willie does-I actually read them.
I would be a Snoodle….because they are very smart, never shed hair and live long. My Snoodle, Sandy is 19 years old and still active and as cute as ever.
Thanks for the compliment, Marja. Pit bull and poodle–what a combination!
Dorothy
Really enjoyed the excerpt for Spirit of the Season, sounds like a great book to read by the fire. I would probably be a border collie, tend to be on the go. Though years now I have owned Akitas.
Even though I have a little toy poodle, I think I’d want to be a standard poodle. To me they are very smart and regal looking.
Hi Dorothy,
I just got home from work and got my message from Coffee Time to check out your blog. I use to live in Indiana and live on Lake Michigan. I miss the snow, for I now live in North Carolina. We get some snow but not as often as we get it in the Mid-West. I loved going St. Joseph in the Spring & Summer. It’s so pretty in that part of Michigan.
We use to have a beautiful Border Collie who was a Tri Colar.
I have horses so I tend to stay with the cattle dogs. I have a Australian Cattle Dog, and a English Shepherd.
If I was a dog I would say I was more an Alpha Female Wolf. I have a strong spirit and I tend to be stand offish from a crowd and I’m very protective when it comes to my son. Just like a mother Wolf would be with her cubs. I’m Native American and one of our Clans is the Wolf Clan. It figures I would pick the Wolf,lol. I really love the cover of your books and I’m so excited to read a new series. I wish you much success in your career as a writer. Oo-Ney!
I would have to say a lab, loyal, can be a handful and a brat when needed lol.
Hi Dorothy!
I see myself as a labrador, hard working, loyal but a brat when I want to be ^^
Hi, Dorothy!
I’ve read every single Dorothy Bodoin book I can get my paws on. Loved each and every one. And yes, they are perfect in front of a fire, especially with a nice big cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows.
I’m not sure I’d be a dog, even though I have two Beagles I love dearly. A cat is more my style. I have one of those, too. And even though your books are about dogs, my cat seems to spend more time on my lap when I’m reading a Dorothy Bodoin book!
Keep on writing, Dorothy!
H. Susan Shaw
Many thanks to all of you who visited my first blog and left a comment. I really enjoyed reading the comments and have the “boxed set” of books all ready for the contest winner!
The very next day, my artist presented me with the perfect cover for ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. It’s on my website on the My Books page. It’s the last cover on the page.
Talk to you again soon.
Dorothy