Showing posts with label Chihuahuas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chihuahuas. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Dogs of Clarkdale (Arizona) Dog Days of Summer



Clarkdale’s Dog Days of Summer 
 


Clarkdale’s celebration of all things canine included:
  • bobbing for hotdogs
  • Chihuahua races
  • Yappy Hour with chicken broth ice cube shots
  • and more... 

Organized and hosted by the Clarkdale Downtown Business Alliance with proceeds to benefit the Verde Valley Humane Society.


Greyhound Pets of Arizona Greyhound rescue
Dogs Bobbing for Hotdogs


 Itsty Bitsy, a Mexican street dog rescue

Bobbing for hotdogs
Teeka enjoying a chicken broth shot




Sedona PD officers Foley  and Dalan


Wednesday, December 10, 2014

My Heroes are Dogs



Some readers love bad boy heroes. Some prefer good boys. My heroes are dogs. And I mean that in a really good way.

I’ve read wonderful books where tortured werewolf heroes draw you in with their angst. My dog-shifter heroes have all the wonderful qualities of your favorite puppy. They’re cute, loyal, and protective, and fall in love at first sight. And very smart. They’re librarians dedicated to preserve knowledge and vanquish book-burning werewolves.

In “Released” my heroine finds a beautiful dog in an abandoned library. They become friends. Then the dog talks. And then the dog turns into a gorgeous, smart guy with a charming English accent. Who wouldn’t fall for him?

In “Retrieved” a hero with male cover model looks changes into a huge English Mastiff who happens to be a brilliant astro-archaeologist. Why not brains and brawn?

Book 3 “Recovered” follows a part werewolf, (a villain in Book 1) as he shepherds his Greyhound love across country to find a buried ancient library and gains his self-respect and a place in the dog-shifter world. Don’t you love a redeemed bad boy rescued by a sweet heroine?

When readers read “Released” the first book in the Shapeshifters Library series, their favorite character besides the Old English Sheepdog hero and the librarian heroine, was Pacifico Lopez, a feisty Chihuahua shifter. He created the Zoogle internet conglomerate and earned money to keep the dog shifters in premium dog food and reference books. He was smart and in “Retrieved” Pacifico started a library services company with the smartest RFID codes ever. 

At last it was time for the smallest and smartest to have his own book. And his own romance. So, Book 4 “Reprinted” brings to the front the smallest hero. A Chihuahua with the more intelligence and daring as he courts a lovely white werewolf who defies her family to help him track down ebook pirates in the Caribbean and uncover a lost Egyptian secret.

Reprinted 
 

Saturday, October 25, 2014

"Reprinted" is in print (and ebook)!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OV585VQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00OV585VQ&linkCode=as2&tag=amberpolocom-20&linkId=NB25HGYAOK36NAYB

At last Reprinted
The Shapeshifters' Library, Book 4
 
is in print. 

It's been a fun journey with my dog-shifting librarians. Their adventures have stretched my imagination and taken me along to some of my favorite places. Now Chihuahua-shifter Pacifico, the smallest and the smartest, has his own story and his own romance. Join this voyage to the warm Caribbean sea to stop werewolf ebook pirates and bring peace to the dog-shifter werewolf feud.

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For centuries a magical race of shapeshifting dogs have protected the world’s libraries from evil book-burning werewolves. But when Chihuahua-shifter Pacifico Lopez, techno-genius inventor of Zoogle, the world’s most powerful search engine, discovers a werewolf plot that threatens to destroy the world of books, dog-shifters face their biggest challenge yet.

Werewolf Landy Romero, an editor at wolf-owned World Wide Publishing, and secret book lover, is horrified to learn that Pacifico thinks her own company is sabotaging books. Their quest to track down ebook pirates takes them to a werewolf Caribbean island resort where they discover an e-book thieving sailing vessel called The Cloud, a diabolical book distribution plant, enslaved dog-shifters who hold the secret to the true dog-shifter/ werewolf history, and an unlikely romance.

In this most exciting Shapeshifters’ Library adventure yet, Pacifico and Landy are thrust into the heart of a tropical storm as they battle lies and uncover injustice and betrayal. And the truth, when exposed, will change everything they believe about themselves and their world, forever.