Sometimes I sell images and never know where they are going to end up, but when I sold this image (which is one of my favorites) I knew it was going to go on a book cover. I went on the hunt to figure out which book and ended up at Eve’s Facebook site. We were in touch and she asked if I would like to do a giveaway of her book which features Gracie on the cover.
I said absolutely! So Eve is guest posting today!
To win a copy of the book, enter a comment in the box below by the end of Wednesday 8/18 and I’ll randomly pick a winner!
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Eve Marie Mont lives with her husband, Ken, and her thirteen-year-old dog, Maggie, in suburban Philadelphia, where she teaches high school English and creative writing. Free to a Good Home is her first novel and was inspired by her love for dogs, shelter dogs in particular.
From Eve:
Whenever I see one of Erin’s beautiful photographs of an adorable canine, I understand why she’s an artist and why the rest of us, despite having more photos of our dogs than ourselves, are just plain amateurs. While I believe my dog Maggie to be the most gorgeous creature on the planet, capturing her essence on camera is another matter entirely. As a thirteen-year-old mixed breed—part Boxer, part Jack Russell—Maggie is spunky enough not to listen to anyone and old enough to get away with it. When it comes to Kodak moments, she is fond of looking coyly at the camera just moments before I take the shot, at which point she will inevitably lean down to lick herself, bite at her hindquarters, or decide spontaneously to jump off the sofa. After years of trying and failing, I finally accepted the inevitable: the only way I was going to get a good shot of Maggie is to take it while she was asleep. So here it is: the best photo I have taken of Maggie.

I do think, however, that I managed to capture some of Maggie’s spirit in the fictional canine character of Zeke in my upcoming novel, Free to a Good Home, which features Erin’s Gracie on the cover. Erin has been gracious enough to offer a giveaway of my book on her blog, so thank you to her and to Gracie!! If you’d like to read a sneak preview of Free to a Good Home, please click here.
by Erin
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