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My guest is Terry Spear. I freely admit I love her books and the hours of entertainment she has provided through them. Terry has a day job, writes—if you visited her website you’ll see she writes a variety of stories, not just wolves. She’s a pretty busy lady. We all have things we do to unwind. Hobbies. Terry talks about hers—making teddy bears and not just any teddy bear, but Celtic clan bears.
See? Terry isn’t just your average goddess
of the wolves, but also of bears.
Years ago I was making
quilts, cloth dolls, embroidering pictures, hooking rugs, you name it. My folks
had begun a business of creating unique doll carriages and other doll furniture
for collectors and taking them to shows all across the country. They were
really successful and bought a number of dolls to display sitting on their
furniture at the shows. But that meant wrapping up all these dolls and keeping
them safe, and lugging them all over when they had to be just as careful with
their doll carriages.
So my dad asked me to
create an old fashioned teddy bear and they’d take them to the shows. And I
began to take them to teddy bear shows at the same time. They won best of show
at a Fort Lauderdale doll and teddy bear show, best dressed bears, and most
unique bear for a pirate peg-legged bear. Three were featured in separate
issues of Teddy Bear Review Magazine, one was featured in Texas Monthly
Magazine and others in Texas Co-op Monthly and the MacNeill in the MacNeill
Galley. They’ve been showcased in several newspapers also. And Spectral Visions
showed them in The International Teddy Bear Connection film.
So the business was
born! With the advent of the Internet, I was excited to create a webpage and
showcase the bears for the whole world to see. And then with paypal, I was able
to take payments online! Besides the baby birth bears paws that are embroidered
with a child’s first name and the birth date on the other foot, one of my goals
was to create the beloved Celtic Clan Bears. I periodically add more clan
plaids to my collection to create a bonnet and sash for the bear, and then
embroider the clan name on the bear’s paws.
The bears have found
homes all over the States and Canada, and as far away as Switzerland, China,
Kazakhstan, France, and Australia!
Over the years, I’ve
had a lot of fun with comments about the bears. At one show, I had a broken
finger in a splint as I tried to embroider bear paws that had been bought at
the site. A man said, “I see your bears bite.”
A lady commented,
“You’re poking them with the needle, and I can see why you got bitten.”
Now, the man reminded
me of my dad, and so I figured that a man would have said such a thing.
The
woman reminded me of me. LOL I didn’t expect a woman to say anything of the
sort.
Oh, and the way I had
broken my finger? I had a black standard poodle, and a white one, both on
leash, both leashes in my right hand, and both dogs dashed in the opposite
direction, the leashes wrapping around the finger and yanking, hard.
So the bear story was
fine. Yes, the bears don’t like being poked with a sharp needle and sometimes
they bite.
Over the years I’ve
also had a number of comments: “You make the whole bear?”
I smile. “Yep. From
scratch.”
“Do you buy the head
from somewhere else?”
I pause and think of a
shop that sells only bear heads. “Nope. I make the bears from scratch.”
When I made my first
bears, my dad looked them over and said, “You didn’t make these.”
I gave him one of my
looks, head tilted to the side, lips pursed, raised eyebrows.
“Did you?” he asked.
And then he wanted to
take them to the Dallas Trade Mart to sell with their carriages, and then the
doll and bear shows, and I became the bear lady.
Although one of my
fans calls me a wolf goddess.
So how have my bears
helped with writing? They’re like characters in furry form. Each is an
individual, and like with writing, I love to take a break and do something
different.
- Do you have a hobby that you love to do?
You can find out more
information about my teddy bears here: http://terryspear.tripod.com/celticbears/
Her instincts tell her he's
dangerous...
While her overprotective brother's
away, Meara Greymere's planning to play—and it wouldn't hurt to find herself a
mate in the process. The last thing she needs is one of his SEAL buddies
spoiling her fun, even if the guy is the hottest one she's ever seen...
His powers of persuasion are
impossible to resist...
Finn Emerson is a
battle-hardened Navy SEAL and alpha wolf. He's a little overqualified for
baby-sitting, but feisty Meara is attracting trouble like a magnet...
As the only responsible alpha
male in the vicinity, Finn is going to have to protect this intriguing woman
from a horde of questionable men, and definitely from himself...
Experience the
sensual, action-packed, critically acclaimed world of Terry Spear, author of a
Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year…
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Terry Spear has written a dozen paranormal romance novels
and two medieval Highland historical romances. An award-winning author, Terry’s
Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers
Weekly’s Best Book of the Year in 2008. A retired lieutenant colonel in the
U.S. Army Reserves, Terry Spear is a librarian by day and spends every spare
moment writing paranormal romance as well as historical and true life stories
for both teen and adult audiences. Spear lives in Crawford, Texas, where she is
working on new paranormal romances! For more information, please visit her website http://www.terryspear.com/.
