Susan Alison paints pictures and writes stories for a living, and her cafetière is always hot. Dogs tend to enter into the pictures, and the prose, quite a lot, Susan living under the paw as she does. Monty and Rosie (and Jeff-Dog now, too) are her Border Collies - they keep an eye on her artwork to make sure she keeps earning kibble, and every now and then they round it up and post it to her artwork blog. See the bottom of any page on her website at www.SusanAlison.com to sign up for her infrequent newsletter detailing new releases. Susan Alison is the Katie Fforde Bursary Award winner for 2011. She has won competition awards for short fiction and sold numerous stories to commercial publications. She writes romantic comedies, urban fantasy, books of illustrated doggerel, and short stories.