The Raisin Chronicles

On Tuesday I learned that The Demon Always Wins is a National Readers Choice Awards finalist for Best First Book!
They gave me this very cool medallion to display.
Winners will be announced on July 25th at the RWA National Conference in New York.

Picking up where the last post in this series left off...
A couple of weeks ago, Kai flipped out when a middle-school girl came by selling candy, barking like a maniac and trying to rush the door. I crated him until she was gone, but it was disheartening, because in the past he's been okay when people came...

Last week I talked about all the great things Kai learned at boarding school, things that seemed to stick even after we brought him home.
This week we're going to talk about a tough reality underlying that rosy picture.
On Wednesday, I took Kai to the gym with me to walk in the cleared, lighted parking lot. (We don't have a lot of sidewalks in our neighborhood, so it's not ideal for walking, especially before daylight.) The perimeter of the parking lot at the gym is...

On Sunday, after two and a half weeks of missing Kai, Old Dog and I drove down to Kentucky to pick him up from "boarding school."
As soon as we got there, we could tell things had changed. Kai was in one of the outdoor kennels. He clearly recognized Old Dog's truck, but he didn't bark. He just wagged his stubby little butt so hard it looked like it would shake loose....