What, me, jealous?

I suppose most people at some point in their life, while sitting in Starbucks sipping a triple shot latte and not moving too much because they might knock their laptop out of its wifi sweet spot, think to themselves, "I should write a book!" One day, they resolve, they're going to do just that.

I do this approximately once a week, and while I was sick, my attention would drift away from the endless stream of home decorating shows that are my life when I don't feel well and I'd let my mind play out the possible ways I might be able to find, you know, ten minutes a day to translate my brilliant thoughts and heartwrenching prose into book form.

So now, as I fill in my daily life again after emerging from my whooping cough sick bed phase, I'm thinking ten minutes a day isn't enough. I know this because my friend and editor Gina Spadafori keeps writing books, and as far as I can tell it's a full time job.

It pays off, though, because not only was one of her recent books, co-authored with my colleague at Pet Connection Dr. Marty Becker,  a New York Times bestseller and no, I'm not jealous at all, why would you say that? but now their  new books are featured in a big spread in Publishers Weekly no really, not jealous at all.

Gina blogged about it and mentioned that her pets are not impressed. Yeah. Well.  I am.

And, you know, jealous.

Comments

[Lee Charles Kelley]

I think you SHOULD write a book. Not because your friend did, or because she hooked up with a bestselling author, but because you're a really good writer with a lot of interesting and valuable things to say about dogs.

LCK

[Gina Spadafori]

Ahem ... actually I was already a best-selling author before we "hooked up" and combined our two nationally syndicated pet-care columns into one -- and begged the wonderful Christie to join the PetConnection team.

But aside from that: Christie will write wonderful books someday. When she's ready.

[Travis]

I think so too, Gina. :)

I keep telling her that, too.

Travis