George Washington Had One Heck of a Garden!

- by Denise Dietz

Here are some fun facts that you might (or might not) be able to use in your books, blogs and emails:
1]  A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
2]  A whale’s penis is called a dork.
3]  An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
4]  A rat can survive longer without water than a [...]

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It’s Not Doggy Enough

- by Denise Dietz

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am.
While waiting tables at Eastside Mario’s in Colorado Springs, I met two Canine Companions ladies and their well-behaved dogs. The ladies said there were too many “cat mysteries” and not enough “dog mysteries,” and I promised to write a [...]

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The Vampire Wore Prada

- by Denise Dietz

My mystery novel, EYE OF NEWT stars a “reluctant witch.” The book goes back and forth between the present and 1692 Salem: “Practical Magic meets The Crucible.”
I then decided to write a crime fiction story starring a vampire. Having never met one face-to-face, I knew I had some intense research to do, and somehow I didn’t think Google [...]

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