Hi Everyone,

When I sent in my spring message I said I was so
enjoying the comfortable temps, and how soon I knew
the heat and humidity of summer would arrive.
Well, it arrived. Even with heat index warnings
already being given on news, I know the worse
is yet to come. I'm already counting down until
fall. (Smile)

My story-starter non-fiction book for romance
writers is still making the rounds. My agent has
it with St. Martins now. I keep hoping one of the
publishers she tries is going to say yes. I've been
told that publishers do say yes from time to time.
(Smile)

I'm doing a major rewrite on two of my contemporary
romances and hoping my agent will think they
are a good match for HQ America Romance.
Of course then I'll have to hope the editor agrees.

I was supposed to do this drawing yesterday, but
I had my hands a little full. If any of you have been
to the pet page on my website, you know I have
way too many dogs. (But I love 'em all.) We've had
a time with fleas this year. Used to Frontline seemed
to work, along with this flea dip I can't get any more.
Well, things were already going bad first thing yesterday
day morning. I've been dealing with a very sick puppy
for a few days, making trips back and forth to the vet.
Yesterday morning I awoke to find the two dogs that
stay outside, were both missing. Some how the gate
had got opened during the night, and they were gone.
After searching the neighborhood, we managed to find
one, but not the other. I had to have the puppy back
to the vet for another IV at eight-thirty, so I gave up
and came home to get ready to go. On the way to
the vet, I actually found my other dog walking down
the road with a woman. We were late for the vet, but
I was so happy to have found Kane and Clover and
have them both safe and sound. I was at the vet
a long time, Korin's IV bag takes nearly two hours.
We made it home and Korin is doing so much better.
Anyway, since I was feeling a little better about my
sick puppy, I thought I would go on and treat the
well dogs with some flea stuff I picked up at Wal-Mart.
It was Sergeant's Gold Flea & Tick, the kind in the
little tube that you squeeze on down their backs. (I've
used a lot of different kinds over the years, cheap and
not cheap.) After I used this one though, in less than
an hour, Lucky started throwing up. I thought with
dread that he was taking the same nasty virus that
Korin has. Then Lucky began to shake, then shake
worse, then he couldn't walk. I thought about the flea
stuff and grabbed him up and bathed him twice. I then
handed him to my daughter and ran around checking
on my other dogs. All seemed well until I looked outside
at the two out there. Clover was drooling every where
and shaking all over. That began a mad dash to wash
every dog at least twice, once with a shampoo and then
after doing a little research on line, we used dish washing
liquid. During the research we found page after page of info
from people who had lost their pets after using this flea
stuff. It was a long evening after an already long last few
tense days, but this morning, so far, Lucky and Clover
seem to be over it, and all of the other dogs are acting fine.
If you have a dog, please be very careful with any of
these once a month flea treatments, especially this
one. If you have a cat, be even more careful, since it
seemed there was even a larger listing of people who
had lost cats from one of these types of flea treatments.

If you know of a safe flea treatment that has worked
well for you, please let me know. You can reach me
at charlottedillon@.... If you reply to this message,
it's supposed to come to me through the group owner
address, but Yahoo has been having a problem with
group owner addresses it seems. So to be sure I get
your message, use my gmail address above or the
contact link from my website. If I get enough tips and
hints about fleas, I'll share them in my next newsletter
or on my blog, or both. Depending on how many and
what kind I get. Please make sure you include at least
your first name with your tip so I can give you credit for
it. Also, if your tip is for a cat only or a dog only, or works
on both, be sure to mention that too.

Now, after my long drawn out story, at last the winner of
the contest! I only have a first name. It's Dawn, she's from
Indiana and has a Yahoo address. I have the e-mail address,
so if we have more than one Dawn from Indiana, I'll know
which one is the right one.

So congrats, Dawn! Please contact me with one of
the addresses I mentioned above to make sure I get
your message, and give me your last name and snail
mail address, and your copy of Allison Brennan's Speak
No Evil will soon be on the way to you. Congrats again!

Thanks so much to everyone for taking the time to sign
up for my little ol' newsletter and spend a few moments
with me through it now and again.

Best wishes to you all!

Charlotte Dillon ~*~ charlottedillon@...
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