As we speak is the day!! It’s been 5 years within the making, and I’m so relieved, exhausted, excited, and terrified! Suddenly! (:
A handful of parents bought 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?
Canine 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 rather a lot to study from canine. (They, nonetheless, have us fairly effectively discovered.)
As a shy introvert and hard-core folks pleaser, I needed to maneuver by life unseen. Invisible. So, once I adopted three canine you merely couldn’t ignore–Emmett, a mild big 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 e-book will get to the guts of why we first fell in love with canine, why we nonetheless love them hundreds of years later, and why they’ve all the time cherished us proper again. Put together to have a look at your personal pup in a complete new gentle.
What are early readers saying?
Whereas there’s a one-star evaluate (the e-book is dry and the details are simply googleable was the gist) I’m selecting to disregard that and deal with 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 e-book:
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 determine the place to spend their hard-earned cash and never-enough spare time.
Should you assume FOR THE LOVE OF DOG is perhaps for you, I strongly suggest checking in along with your native impartial bookstores or your public library, and if on-line is healthier for you, listed here are some hyperlinks:
Should you’re within the Indy space, I hope to see you for the launch social gathering on Thursday!
Earlier than I shut for immediately, I needed to ask: Is anybody fascinated with a behind-the-scenes story of how this e-book took place? How I wrote it? The publishing course of? In different phrases, does anybody need a publish about e-book writing or ought to I simply get again to canine??
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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