Right this moment is the day!! It’s been 5 years within the making, and I’m so relieved, exhausted, excited, and terrified! Abruptly! (:
A handful of oldsters obtained to learn “Superior Reader Copies” by way of NetGalley, so I needed to share a few of their ideas about FOR THE LOVE OF DOG.
However, first, a synopsis:
What’s FOR THE LOVE OF DOG all about?
Canines and people are buddies on an evolutionary scale. Our histories intertwine so inextricably that we will’t separate our lifelines from theirs over the previous 20,000 years. However, regardless of these tens of hundreds of years of coevolution, it seems we nonetheless have lots to be taught from canines. (They, nevertheless, have us fairly nicely found out.)
As a shy introvert and hard-core folks pleaser, I needed to maneuver by way of life unseen. Invisible. So, after I adopted three canines you merely couldn’t ignore–Emmett, a mild large pit bull; Lucas, a three-legged shepherd combine; Cooper, a wiry and neurotic staffie–they blew my cowl. As we tackled nervousness, cross-country strikes, stray kittens, canine bites, and most cancers (all of us), I discovered to advocate for them. In flip, they helped me discover my voice. To root our story in science, FOR THE LOVE OF DOG weaves collectively analysis on canine habits and canine cognition with my expertise with my boys. This ebook will get to the guts of why we first fell in love with canines, why we nonetheless love them hundreds of years later, and why they’ve at all times liked us proper again. Put together to take a look at your personal pup in a complete new mild.
What are early readers saying?
Whereas there’s a one-star evaluate (the ebook is dry and the details are simply googleable was the gist) I’m selecting to disregard that and give attention to the remainder, that are all four- and five-star opinions! Like these:
After which there’s this one which makes my coronary heart sing. She hit on every part I so desperately needed to convey with this ebook:
I’m so grateful to everybody who provides their time to learn books earlier than they arrive out and to share their ideas, even the tough ones, to assist readers resolve the place to spend their hard-earned cash and never-enough spare time.
For those who suppose FOR THE LOVE OF DOG could be for you, I strongly advocate checking in along with your native unbiased bookstores or your public library, and if on-line is healthier for you, listed below are some hyperlinks:
For those who’re within the Indy space, I hope to see you for the launch celebration on Thursday!
Earlier than I shut for at the moment, I needed to ask: Is anybody fascinated about a behind-the-scenes story of how this ebook took place? How I wrote it? The publishing course of? In different phrases, does anybody need a submit about ebook writing or ought to I simply get again to canines??
In any other case, thanks a lot for being right here, for sharing on this group of canine lovers, and to your assist of my work. I’m so deeply grateful.
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