1–What is the title of your latest release? UNLEASHED HOLIDAY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When an old rival reappears right before the holidays, a professional dog trainer must decide if the melting frost between them can make up for their ruff past. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? My hometown is incredibly quaint, and I thought a fictional town that mirrors the charm of it would be the perfect setting. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? 100% Although I’m not sure she’d want to hang out with me! (She’s a bit of an introvert.) 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Driven, optimistic, conflicted. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? There are three quarrelsome goats in UNLEASHED HOLIDAY, so I spent time getting acquainted with a crew of goats on a local farm. I absolutely fell in love with them! I knew goats were adorable thanks to social media, but my hands-on research showed me how clever and dog-like they are. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I always edit as I write. I’m a pantser…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Victoria Schade!   Writes: Romance and women’s fiction for readers who appreciate happily ever afters that include four paws.   About: If you want to hang with me you’ve got to be Team Dog. (Although I’m also cat-curious, so you might say that I swing both ways.) You enjoy a little angst thrown in before you reach your happily ever after (think uncompromising heroines and family drama), and you aren’t afraid of a few f-bombs along the way.   My ideal reader match for DOG FRIENDLY appreciates: A heroine trying to find herself again A sunshine love interest who helps her see the bright side of life A foster dog that’s a sweetie in the sheets and a terror on the streets A peek at veterinary life, including the good, the bad and the messy A little sibling sparring A picture-perfect Nantucket setting A HEA that’ll hit you right in the feels   What to expect if we’re compatible: Visiting spots like the English…

For a moment, she allowed herself to experience what Griffin McCabe might have felt when he discovered that his dog was missing. Did he stay out all night looking for him? did he put up lost dog posters with Spencer’s photo? How long did he keep hoping he’d turn up? Did he cry? Her heart twisted as she realized that Griffin’s “missing” dog was resting safe and sound beside her and he had no clue. Based on the Facebook post, he hadn’t given up hope, even after a year with no leads. She closed her eye in defeat. Damn it, she had to do it, and it had to happen now. If she waited, she’d find a million reasons not to call. but now, on a dead-end day when she could feel his loss in the pit of her belly, she could allow it. It wasn’t fair to let the stranger continue to wonder if his dog was dead or alive. but… but what if he was an a-hole and demanded that she give him back? And who actually owned Spencer Was there a statute of limitations on pet parenthood? Justine felt herself getting preemptively angry at Griffin. “No matter what…

Our first foster dog came into our home at an embarrassingly late stage in my dog training career. I’d been talking and writing about fostering for years but hadn’t made the leap to actually doing it for reasons (excuses?) that might sound familiar to you; I was busy, my resident dogs might not enjoy it, and I’d have a hard time saying goodbye to my new best friend. But when the heartbreaking photos of dogs in need on my feed got to be too much for me, I finally decided it was time to stop talking and start doing. We welcomed an adorable pitbull named Freddy and that dude helped us kick off our fostering journey. Since then my husband and I have gone on to foster a bunch of other dogs with more on the horizon. My initial concerns about fostering didn’t really matter when I saw the happy endings that happened once our fosters found their forevers. There are so many compelling reasons why fostering is important, but the following are a few of my favorites. Fostering Saves Two Lives Any time you bring in a foster you’re saving an additional life along with the temporary one under…