This week, I’ve been working on the novel I will likely self publish next year, and when I got to a certain point, I decided to add a dog character.
I’ve just finished two books that have ace dog characters in them. One is a book I’m beta reading for a writer friend of mine, that has a fabulous dog called Ned in the story. The other is the audio version of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, that has likely the BEST dog character ever.
Six-Thirty is a dog that knows over 900 words and who even has his own narrative voice. Every time he appeared in the book, he made me smile (which might have looked a little odd as I was mostly listening to the book through ear pods on my way to work), and I have to say, I loved him
My own book, My Daughter’s Killer (HQ Digital), also has a dog and I became very fond of Boswell during the many late nights I was writing it, my own scraggy black lab cross Taz by my side. Sadly, we lost old man Taz last summer but now I have greyhound Nero, who I pretend keeps me company while I write (mostly he just runs off as soon as he hears the pc come on as he may be the size of a Shetland pony, but he’s terrified of everything).
Of course, the dog character I would say stayed with me from childhood is James’ Herbert’s Fluke. How I loved that book. Maybe it’s time for a re-read.
Anyone have any favourite dog or cat characters that have stayed with them?
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Reading this week: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Anyone else read? Let me know xx