Power Multiplied

Missing Mastiffs

This little sweetheart is my English mastiff Tulip. I took the photo when she was a baby, but she has grown over the last five years to 170 pounds. The protagonist Shannon Kendricks in the Power Rising trilogy also has an English Mastiff, but I wrote those books before my Tulip arrived. Not quite life imitating art, because I had another mastiff, a Neapolitan mastiff named Quiddity, prior to Tulip and my first book was dedicated in part to Quiddy. So art imitatimg life imitatimg art. The fictional mastiff, called Independence, Indy for short, steps up to play a major role in a major battle in The Power of Three and again steps in to protect Shannon in book two, Power Multiplied, although under very changed circumstances. I am willing to bet both Quiddity and Tulip would step up in just the same way. Unfortunately I don't have my Tulip with me because she would not fare at all well in the climate down in the part of Costa Rica in which I live. My vet put her foot down and said she shouldn't come with me, So I had to leave her with friends who would spoil her as much as I did. I miss her terribly, just as Shannon missed her own sweet girl, Indy.