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You may not know this about me, friends, but I’m a bit of a softie when it comes to animals. They don’t even have to be fuzzy, either. I’ve always had rather a surfeit of empathy for the downtrodden, and what’s more downtrodden than a species that’s in danger of becoming extinct? Not much, I tell you.
So when the lovely and kindhearted Heather McCorkle sent out a call for hosts for her Spruce Knoll for Endangered Species blog tour, I couldn’t say no. Yeah, yeah, I’m a sap. Go ahead and judge me. I’ll be over here in the corner brushing up on my not-giving-a-CENSORED*.
Anyway, a special edition of Heather’s The Secret Of Spruce Knoll is releasing from Compass Press this month and she’s doing a blog tour to go along with it. A percentage of the proceeds from every special edition sold by December 12th (in any format) will go toward Heather’s favorite charity that protects endangered species. Very cool, yes?
Of course, there are prizes during the tour (which started on December 1st and goes through the 17th). They include a symbolic adoption for the endangered species of the winner’s choice (a $50 donation by Heather), signed copies of her novels, and great swag (which I hear may include cute stuffed animals, but since cute stuffed animals have been banned on this blog since 1994, I can neither confirm nor deny this fact). For full details on how to enter, why not hop over to Heather’s blog?
Also, as part of the tour, Heather has asked each blog host to pick their favorite endangered species. I’ll tell you, the list was pretty long, but after careful consideration, I had to go with the Hellbender Salamander.
I mean, c’mon. The name alone? Awesome. It makes me want to write a short story. We’ve had The Last Airbender, right? Why not The Last Hellbender?
And Heather offers the following facts about this nifty creature:
This is one really cool near-endangered species. The hellbender salamander is over two feet in length and lives in fresh water such as rivers and streams. They have both gills and lungs (in different stages of their development) and they absorb oxygen from the water through capillaries on their side-frills.
So help a poor Hellbender out, won’t you, folks? Click on over to Heather’s blog for additional details, or just go ahead and pick up a special edition of her book at:
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And don’t forget to tell her about it if you do. You’ll be helping out a poor, voiceless, two-foot long Hellraiser Salamander, yes? Yes.
Till next time, friends.
Cheers!
*Heather’s a classy gal, so I decided to avoid profanity in a blog post promoting her charitable efforts. But this is a footnote, and not the real post, so you may as well know I totally dropped the f-bomb underneath that CENSORED sticker.
