Okay, I am not a dog person. I like dogs – better than I like most people – but I'm not one of those people that forms bonds with dogs. My wife is. Our dogs adore her. They follow her from room to room, their ears perk up at every single passing car when she's out, and they throw themselves on her when she comes home. They obey me and they like me well enough, but they don't love me. On the other hand, there are usually three cats on my side of the bed for most of the night. Sometimes four.
So, writing a story for an anthology called Sirius the Dog Star was a bit of a challenge. Rising to that challenge, I decided I wouldn't merely write about dogs, I'd be the dog. In a literary sense.
Plus, I don't much like first person point of view. I find it limiting. (I'm not saying it is limiting, I'm saying that's how I find it.) There are only a few authors who write in first person that I read and out of twenty-eight books and seventy plus short stories, I've written first person point of view three times. Finding Marcus was the second time.
Also, I've never been asked to be in one of the many cat anthologies. I find that interesting, although, admittedly, not exactly relevant to the matter at hand...