Dogs and Goddesses, the Tagline Contest
So we need a tagline for Dogs and Goddesses. And I am covered with shame because I still haven’t sent Francois her stuff for the Dreamland win and there’s this wrap from the UMF contest that I did finally finish and pack up to send, only to go looking for the address and get distracted, and then I put something down on top of the box . . . I just found the box. Clearly, I should not run contests. But we really need a tagline for D&G. So Mollie will be sending out the prize: a fabulous tea set. I’d show you a picture of it BUT WORDPRESS WON’T LET ME UPLOAD PICTURES (yes, I did click the little media box; there’s a glitch in the programming and evidently many of us cannot upload unless we link to another site, which is not helpful). It’s a Tea Forté set that includes a café cup, wooden oval serving tray and tea tray with a sampler tin containing six Tea Forté silken tea infusers. It’s really lovely. You should see the picture. Plus as I said, Mollie will be sending it out so you’ll actually GET IT.
Now the contest. If you’ve been following along on the D&G blog, you already know what Dogs and Goddesses about. If you haven’t, Chapter One and Chapter Two are up there now, soon to be followed by Chapter Three. It’s about three women who find out they’re goddesses. Because their dogs talk to them. Trouble ensues.
So we need a short tagline because there are three names, a title, and the words “A Novel” on there already and it’s a mass market paperback cover which means it’s small. Deadline for entries is Monday 10 AM ET. Because that’s when I have to give them to Jen.
And I’m working on getting those last two contest prizes out right now. Really. Please send addresses again. Francois, I am throwing out the Twinkies I put in there originally and getting new ones, I swear.
Argh.
Dogs and Goddesses:
Feel the Force
Women’s Best Friend
Aargh. I’m trying to remember what the goddesses’ themes are. Something like Change, Food and Climax? How about Change, Chow and Completion?
Or, taken from the chapter:
Love, Life and Healing
Together they found love, life and healing
Working together for love, life and healing
Love is a many-canined thing
How about…
“Dogs talk.
Goddesses listen.
Love life”
Looking forward to chapter three.
Unleashing the Power of Love
Barking up the wrong tree never felt so right.
Love them, love their dogs (variation of “Love me, love my dog”)
In a dog-eat-dog world, these three goddesses rule.
Sit. Stay. Here’s a treat.
Sit. Stay. Good reader.
Fetch your power.
Chase your destiny.
Good goddesses.
This tale definitely wags the dog.
In the heart of every goddess lives a dog.
or
In the soul of every goddess lives a dog.
Um, I’m almost hallucinating from being at a Little League game for two hours in 95 degree heat (with humidity!!). Sorry I overdid it with my suggestions, but this was fun. Thanks, Jenny!
Fetch your power.
Unleash your destiny.
Good goddesses.
A goddess obediance course
A tail of three goddesses in training
No snakes or snails; lots of puppy dog tails
Unleash your inner goddess
Ancient Mesopotamia has gone to the dogs
Delaney was clever and came up with the verb “unleash” first. I just had the thought that it might sound better than “chase” so am running to my computer again to tweak my suggestion.
“Chase” is proactive, which I like, but “unleash your destiny” implies powerful forces at work, sort of like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Dogs and Goddesses … power of the paw.
Dogs and Goddesses … from the divine to the ridiculous!
Dogs and Goddesses … when dogs talk even Goddesses listen.
Dogs and Goddesses … where the Gods have gone to the dogs.
Sis came up with this one and I had to post it…
Who Let the Goddesses Out?
Dogs and Goddesses… Who could ask for anything more?
I’m still glad the box with the UMF wrap is at your house and not lost. I will send you my address again on Monday.
It’s not really a tag line but in regards to KG - Bad Goddess! No biscuit.
“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let lose the dogs of love.”
Or dogs of whatever you please, of course. I don’t think Billy S. will mind. : )
following Kieran’s lead, something like “unleashing fate and destiny” ??
Dogs & Goddesses—A Cat’s Worst Nighmare?
Dogs and Goddesses: Sit. Stay. Rule.
Who let the dogs talk?
Add this plugin:
No Flash Uploader.
Hmmm
Sit. Smooch. Smite. : )
Dogs. Divinity. Dating. What could possibly go wrong? or Dogs, divinity, dating…disaster.
Off leash. In love. Up for trouble.
To save the world they’ll have to learn some new tricks…
Learning to stay. Falling in love. Saving the world.
Can new goddesses learn an old trick?
Even non-believers will adore them.
Second thought:
Every goddess has her day.
And Third:
Heel for the dog. Heels for the Goddess.
Obviously my next two suggestions were so bad, they were deleted right away. I’ll repeat them anyway:
Every goddess has her day.
Heel to the dog. Heels for the goddess.
CG, you ended up in the spam folder, at least one of yours did. There are 3735 comments in the spam folder, so I checked the first couple dozen, rescued you, and then deleted the rest. Apologies to anybody who went down with the Viagra and the porn.
Jane, thanks for the tip but we tried that. We tried everything. We just have to wait for Wordpress to issue an update that fixes it. Or for me to find a place to post pictures and link to, which will probably be faster.
And now back to the Essay That Wouldn’t Die.
Great taglines, too! Keep ‘em coming.
Obedience school was never so rewarding
Holy Dog!
Sumertime … it’s canine chaos.
Dogs And Goddesses - purebred power
“Or for me to find a place to post pictures and link to, which will probably be faster”
Have you tried Flickr.com? I wish I had a tagline to offer but the heat has eaten my brain.
Dogs and Goddesses - no bark and all delight
Dogs and Goddesses - Spot has a secret…
Dogs and Goddesses - here it’s Kammani instead of Kibbles for canines
Dogs and Goddesses - dogs talk and goddesses walk
Dogs and Goddesses - speak now or forever hide your goddess
Sorry. It was addicting.
Dogs and Goddesses-they will make you sit up and beg
Me, I really like “Three authors, one book, no clue”.
Failing that:
The ordinary becomes canine.
You know you’re having a strange day when you find out you’re an ancient goddess reincarnated… because your dog told you so.
Sometimes a dog is a goddess’ best friend.
All dogs think their owner is a God.
This time, it’s true.
Whoever said dog is mans best friend never asked the dog.
“Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend, inside a dog it’s too dark to read.”
(Pass on that one,it’s Grouch Marx)
As Dog is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.
Man’s best friend, Woman’s secret weapon.
Strong enough for a man, made for a woman.
Sit, Stay, Speak…[in English]
Puppy love, I’m tapped out. Back to my day job.
Reunited…and it feels so good…
ReinCanine-ation
Ancient blood lines, divine dogs
Power of three - plus puppies!
To err is human, but the dog trainer’s divine.
Reincarnated puppiophileistic divinities.
A dog and his goddess… times three.
Telepathic (or Talking) dogs are a goddess’s best friend.
Ancient power, modern women, extraordinary dogs.
riff off Ltl: My dog as my witness, I’ll never be mortal again. (Maybe human instead of mortal?)
Yeah, it’s clearly time to get some sleep!
Dogs and Goddesses - who’d have thought a dog obedience class could get you into so much trouble
Dogs and Goddesses - now who’s talking?
Talkies not just walkies.
…where dogs talk, goddesses claim their powers and gods run for the hills.
Dogs and Goddesses: it’s about goddesses and dogs, enough said.
Learn woof. Find love. Save the world.
Bow Wow!
And I’m going to apologize for this one upfront, but if I say it I’m hoping to get it out of my head! Love… Doggystyle.
Very cute, S, I love the immediate visual. Can see the cover, marble statues in various, um, poses. Heh.
Dogs and Goddesses … a divine romp.
Okay, that’s it, I’m tapped out. Gotta go write.
When Goddesses meet their matches, everything goes to the dogs.
Dogs and Goddesses: Man’s best friend is on their side, now.
A Comedy of Terriers.
Goddesses, Dogs and the men who love them…
All good relationships begin with obedience school.
Love is power. What better first date than obedience school?
Fifty ways to please your.. dog trainer?
It could only happen to a Goddess.
To pee or not to pee - you have to be a Goddess to hear that debate…
Gosh we’re a creative bunch.
What about -
Ancient Mesopotamia never looked so good.
Dogs and Goddesses - taking over the world. (TOTH - bwah ha ha ha ha)
Divinity just went to the dogs.
Dogs and Goddesses - man’s best friend just switched sides.
Dogs and Goddesses - who needs men?
Every goddess should have one.
Goddesses rule - so do their dogs.
Goddesses rock - so do their dogs.
‘A Comedy of Terriers’… argggggh!
3 divine women, 3 talking dogs, 3 bewildered men, 9 times as much fun.
It could only happen to a Deity.
Much ado about wuffing.
Or should that be ‘Much doggy-do about nothing’.
Jenny: Asking again–any chance that you might be able to drop in to the EE discussion of BET ME if we adjust the time to suit you?
Also: People, I think Bob needs a hug:
Aniston was seen out with a mystery man, and Just Jared has pics of her at BFF Courteney Cox’s BBQ without Mayer. But US Mag says Cox enthuses that Jen’s in a good place. We need a Mayer blog post to sort this all out. (June 9)
Goddesses Rock…
While dogs talk
Whoops, sorry, Tal. I’m distracted lately. Where is this and when again? I did look back through the comments to this post so it must have been somewhere else.
You know, you live with construction long enough, you lose everything. Including your mind.
OK, I hope that this isn’t inappropriate - these are just such good books, and I know some of you have e-book technology.
For those of you who have not tried Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Clare Fergusson/ Russ Van Alstyne mysteries, the author (Julia Spencer-Fleming) sent the following email: (with an interpolation from me):
I Shall Not Want (book 6) officially goes on sale Tuesday, June 10.
To celebrate, St. Martin’s Press is offering FREE ebook editions of the first two books in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series. These free downloads are available right now, through Thursday, June 12. So act fast!
You can download the .pdf versions of In the Bleak Midwinter and A Fountain Filled With Blood at the I Shall Not Want book page of St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan.
At the Sony eBook Store, you can download the Sony Reader edition of A Fountain Filled With Blood.
And finally, Amazon is offering Kindle editions of In the Bleak Midwinter and A Fountain Filled With Blood at the attractive price of $0.
These are terrific mysteries, with wonderful characters (he’s a Vietnam-era vet and small-town sheriff, she’s a younger former Army helicopter pilot and current Episcopal priest) and an Adirondack setting that is often a character in its own right. It’s not at all glib, but very honest and principled, dealing with the conflicts and attraction between the protagonists.
My mother loves them, my parents’ friend who is a retired Episcopal priest loves them, anyone I’ve ever lent them to - loves them.
I’ve been trying to think about a tagline but so far my imagination is not cooperating with me.
OH and “Bet Me” I think it’s one of my faves (I probably mentioned that already) I even checked it out of the library for a second time; I read it 3 times the first time I had it.
I am thinking it might be a better idea just to buy it.
I hope that your knee is not huting anymore remember to try and be good and don’t lift anything heavy.
I shall ponder some more about that tag line.
Jenny! I’m going to email you from my home email - paleorat/hotmail with my address. I’ll title it something related to UMF.
Angie
The kind of tonic you WISH your doctor prescribed.
How about: Tongues and tails are wagging…
It’s a God’s life.
Goddesses worth worshiping
Jenny, I originally asked on 6/5 on the SBP Trouper post:
Incidentally, over on Evil Editor’s blog at the end of the month I will be leading a discussion of BET ME. Any chance you might drop by for an hour or so? If there is, we will schedule to suit you, even if it means that half the Evil Minions have to get up in the middle of the night to participate.
Time and date haven’t been set yet, as we wanted to accommodate you if at all possible. We usually have these discussions in the last week of the month, and the time varies depending on who shows up and where they live. I’m thinking around 3 to 5 Pacific time, which I think I’m on at present. Usually everyone planning to show up says so and says where they live.
This is a group made up of writers and writer wannabes. Some of us (ahem!) have published, others hope to soon. Discussions are planned to last for about an hour, though some of us may carry on longer.
By the way, if you work the construction into the plot of your next book, does that make it a Bildungsroman?
No, it makes it a Rehabroman.
Sure on the blog discussion. Give me the URL and the day and time and then remind me because my head is going to be exploding all month. I’m planning on sleeping again in July.
When you said the deadline was Monday 10 a.m. ET, which Monday did you mean?
Because I’m so curious which tag line made the finals.
I’m voting for Who let the Goddesses out, myself.
Oh, S, I’m grooooaning (in a good way) over Much Ado About Wuffing.
I know, I know - I can’t help myself.
Ah, I was out of town, and didn’t grasp the part about the deadline when I came back. C’est la vie.
Is there anything we can to do force Wordpress to get the picture thing going? Because our last riot worked so well.
I think beachballs are on sale this week. Does anyone still have their pitchfork handy, or are they all in the garden…
Tal did not encourage me to post my suggestion Divinity, Humanity, Caninity, so I didn’t - at least, not before the deadline, which is now safely past.
‘Is there even such a word as caninity?’ she asked. Well, if not, there ought to be, along with ‘felinity’, ‘equinity’ and ‘bovinity’. I have used the word cynocentric in my own current book (which also touches upon Gula), and not even the editor queried it, so it may actually exist.
I was having so much fun with them (I have a rather dry dayjob), can’t we just keep making up tags? A bit like the old adage ‘Dance like nobody’s watching’? Make up tags like they don’t matter (it’s a very dry dayjob)?:)
Sorry, sorry, sorry . . .
We pulled some out and sent them to Jen and she said, “Close but no cigar” today.
So sure keep going. Let’s assume I said next Monday. You know, the other one.
Also, if there is no word “caninity” there should be, so no worries.
I am having cement difficulties although not tile and dry wall difficulties and did I mention that my sink went to DC instead of here, so clearly the Mercury retrograde is doing just fine and dandy: the remodeling stuff is going well but the new stuff (screened porch) is, as Bob would say, a complete clusterfuck. The retrograde ends the 19th. Maybe we should make the 21st the deadline since this is a new tagline.
Maybe I should just go write something and stop obsessing about concrete.
Jenny why don’t you give Jen all these tag lines and let her go through them. There is bound to be a winner in there somewhere. As a reader I liked a lot of them. I can’t write a tag line to save my soul.
Jenny: at present we are thinking of some date between June 26th and June 30th, starting at some time between 3pm and 9pm Pacific. 3pm seems to work well for all the minions here and abroad (we haven’t yet polled for who is showing up); we’ve usually done weekdays before, but are considering weekend days unless it disrupts too many people’s Fourth of July holiday plans. So, does any particular day and time suit you better than any other? And when we decide, shall I put the URL and date here? If I send you e-mail, it seems to get treated as spam.
Also, have you guys considered writing a sequel about male deities and female rulers of medieval Venice? You could call it GODS & DOGESSES…
Dogs and Goddesses … lust, chaos, and ecstacy.
Dogs and Goddesses … loyalty and truth.
Dogs and Goddesses … links to the past, roads to the future.
Dogs and Goddesses … talking dogs, passionate priestesses, guys with no clue.
Dog’s and Goddesses … so flammable it’ll blast you back to Sumeria.
Dogs and Goddesses - Dogdom has never been so divine
Dogs and Goddesses … a frisky female fable.
Dogs and Goddesses … unleashing the myths.
Dogs and Goddesses … magic, myth and Mespotamia.
Dogs and Goddesses … tails and tales.
Dogs and Goddesses … Arf! It’s a talking dog story.
Shoot me now! That’s not an entry but this is becoming addictive. Grin. You can blame it on the Vicodan.j
Dogs and Goddesses … Woof, woof, worship
Dogs and Goddesses .. Love unleashed
I can’t really claim credit for that last one. Plenty of other people have used “unleash” - it’s such a juicy word.
They unleash their powers … and their canine companions. But to accept romantic advice from minor Mesopotamian deities?
Dogs and Goddesses: What the world needs now.
Jen went through all of them, I think. Taglines have to hit just right and she said a lot of them were close but no cigar. So by all means, keep playing the game.
Tal, The 30th is bad for me–my houseguests arrive that day–but otherwise, that’s all good. NO idea why you’re spam in my e-mail system.
And we’ve been brainstorming a sequel and titles, but that depends on if we have the time to do it and if SMP wants another one, and both of those are still up in the air and will be until the first one comes out.
And now back to work. My sink came today after it’s visit to DC. IT goes more placea than I do. Thank God.
Some more…
Dogs and Goddesses…Old Trouble. New Tricks.
Dogs and Goddesses…Man’s best friend or his worst nightmare?
Dogs and Goddesss…Get hot under the collar (or They’re hot under the collar)
Dogs and Goddesses…divine intervention is the least of their problems
Dogs and Goddessess…sit, stay, kneel
Dogs and Goddesses..some bones should stay buried
Dogs and Goddesses…let sleeping gods lie…or else
Dogs and Goddesses…Mutts. Men. Mayhem.
Dogs and Goddesses…heaven on earth is going to the dogs
Dogs and Goddesses…to answer their prayers, they’re gonna have to slip the leash
Dogs and Goddesses … meaty, moist, a tad crunchy.
Dogs and Goddesses … powerful past; perfect future.
Dogs and Goddesses … embracing their combined power.
Dogs and Goddesses … if dogs talked and gods listened.
Dogs and Goddesses … tossing the gods a bone.
Dogs and Goddesses … Shhh! It’s a collaboration. Don’t tell the gods.
Dogs and Goddesses … let the gods beware.
Dogs and Goddesses … Puppy insight. Priestess power.
Sometimes you find Mesopotamia where you least expect it… in your own back yard
Dogs and Goddesses - Three women, three dogs, one divine secret
Dogs and Goddesses - What happens when both ends of the leash speak…to each other
Talking dogs, difficult men - all in a deity’s work.
Divine Madness.
Or you could use the definition too:
Divine madness - unusual behavior attributed to intervention of a god(dess).
Happiness comes after godliness.
Three goddesses. Too many dogs to count. (or are there four goddesses?)
They’re goddesses in the bedroom . . . and out.
You’ll never view stone carvings the same way again.
When understanding your dog is not a sign of insanity.
When dogs talk, divinity follows.
They had no idea they were goddesses . . . until their dogs told them.
She wanted priestesses. She got goddesses and a world of trouble.
If your dog told you that you were a goddess, would you believe him?
This is definitely my last attempt:
Dogs and Goddesses. Watch out for their altar egos.
And can anybody explain to me where the idiom “close, but no cigar” comes from?
Apparently from cigars being given as prizes in slot machines and carnival games.
http://www.idiomsite.com/closebutno.htm
Dogs & Goddesses: Myth, Magic and Mayhem
Dogs & Goddesses: Love and Magic through Millennia
Dogs & Goddesses: Love worth the wait! Sometimes it just takes a few millennia to find your true love.
I said I wouldn’t do it this time, but I guess I lied.
Teaching new goddess old tricks.
It’s the god days of Summerville.
No bark, all smite
Thanks, Jenifer. Seeing as how expensive cigars can be, this does make sense. I bookmarked this site so that I can look up the next question myself.
Myth, Mutts, Mesopotamia, and Amore = Mayhem
Mistresses of the Mythic Mutts
The “close but no cigar” line comes primarily from this carny game, where a cigar was the prize. Many men came close to ringing the bell, but few managed. The article accompanying the picture tells why: it was rigged.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularMechanics/2-1935/xlg_high_striker.jpg
Dogs talk back. Goddesses become. All Hell breaks loose.
Dogs talk them into becoming Goddesses. Then all hell breaks loose.
Man’s best friend? I don’t think so.
Goddesses’ best friends. And they talk. Then all hell breaks loose.
L-plate Goddesses in Love. And their dogs talk…
L-plate Goddesses. Lippy dogs. Love.
Dogs & Goddesses - a novel - when divinity isn’t enough
Dogs and Goddesses … animal magnetism + priestess power = campus chaos.
Dogs and Goddesses … a powerful awakening for a sleepy college campus.
Dogs and Goddesses … rewriting history, one myth at a time.
Not even looking for true love - until they unleash the goddess within.
or, on a similar note:
Unleash true love - and the goddess within!
Although I quite liked “The Power of Three - plus puppies!”.
True love, talking dogs, and trio of testy goddesses triumph over tonic-pushing tyrant!
Three goddesses-in-training tugged from their ruts by true love and talking dogs.
I’m having trouble achieving punch and pith.
Dogs and Goddess: Mutts, Mayhem and Mesopotamia
Wow, youse guys are so good at this. It could be an appendix to the book
Not that anyone asked, but my personal faves are:
Sit. Stay. Rule!
Watch out for their altar egos
Old Trouble, New Tricks
(take out the “out” and add 2 syllables to the first line for your own D&G haiku…)
Although I’m sure that “toss the gods a bone” would make many people’s eyes widen in the bookstore.
I had to google L-plate. Where is this used at. Where I’m from, they just slap on a magnetic “Student Driver”
But I like the L-plate Goddesses suggestions. (after I learned what it meant)
Jenny: the last weekend in June isn’t working out for most of the people who want to discuss BET ME. How about next weekend? Or maybe next Thursday?
I think so, Tal. Just let me know.
Nothing is working out ANYWHERE right now. Damn Mercury retrograde.
Well, I checked again, and the people who aren’t showing up don’t look as if they’d show up anyway. So unless it is a no go for you, I’m officially declaring that the chat will start on Thursday, June 26th, at 4 pm Pacific (7 pm Eastern).
I’m trying to be more assertive, if nobody minds….
LOL. Because you were so shy before. The 26th is fine.
When the temple comes knocking, goddesses go walking…
(sorry, couldn’t help myself!)
Where Mesopotamia meets the Midwest
Obey the Word of Dog…or else!