Last week, we selected the winner of our Dazzling Dogs Writing Contest. Maureen Lee won a license for IdeaWeaver for her story called "Scouting for Bashful," which involved Girl Scouts and a dog named Bashful.

In the story, the 13-year old protagonist gets a lot more than just a box of Thin Mints; she got a new furry friend.

Unfortunately, we didn't get enough stories that we loved to compile into a book (we need a minimum of 20). But we plan to run the contest again another time in the hopes that we can inspire more people to write about their favorite furry friends.

In the meantime, we hope Maureen enjoys IdeaWeaver!

I just found out that my new radio show Take Me Home is featured this week on iTunes.

The show is all about pet adoption and pet rescue. Every week on "Take Me Home," I talk to guests from animal shelters and rescue groups about pets that may have been overlooked for one reason or another, but still need a loving "forever home." Here's the link on the Pet Life Radio site:

Take Me Home Radio Show

If you go to the podcast section, in iTunes, you'll see the Take Me Home is featured this week!

Woo hoo ;-)

Once again, I'm a little late in mentioning this, but the new issue of Computor Companion magazine is online. (We were on vacation, so blogging wasn't really on my "to do" list.)

Anyway, the new issue has these articles:

Demystifying Nerd Words (all about misused and confusing terminology)

How to Create a Postcard in Photoshop (based on my experiences creating promotional postcards for our books)

Digital Photos 101 (Dian Chapman gets graphic-y)

How to Set Your Retail Pricing to Meet Your Financial Goals (complete with cool online calculating tool)

Q&A on a Weird Excel Error (add-in badness strikes again)

Golf: The Online Frontier (who knew there were so many links about links)

A Disturbing Vista on the Horizon (which has a link to one of the funniest You Tube videos I've seen in ages)

Enjoy!