What the…? Why did my friend Carla Damron (author of The Orchid Tattoo) let me use this photo of her inimitable cat Dickens? If you’d like to find out, download this bonus short story about a feline character in my novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over: Hemingway Comes to Stay…
The cat in the picture is actually called Dickens, and belongs to a friend of mine, Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo and other novels, who kindly allowed me to use his photo.
Carla Damron
March 20, 2023 - 12:54 pm ·Thank you for making Dickens a STAR!!! Of course, he’ll be even more insufferable now.
Gabi Coatsworth
March 20, 2023 - 2:03 pm ·He was already a star! His agent called me and asked me to include him. The check is in the mail…