Right now is the day!! It’s been 5 years within the making, and I’m so relieved, exhausted, excited, and terrified! Unexpectedly! (:
A handful of parents received to learn “Superior Reader Copies” by way of NetGalley, so I wished 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 are able to’t separate our lifelines from theirs over the previous 20,000 years. However, regardless of these tens of 1000’s of years of coevolution, it seems we nonetheless have quite a bit to study from canines. (They, nevertheless, have us fairly nicely discovered.)
As a shy introvert and hard-core individuals pleaser, I wished to maneuver via life unseen. Invisible. So, after I adopted three canines you merely couldn’t ignore–Emmett, a delicate 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 realized 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 conduct and canine cognition with my expertise with my boys. This e-book will get to the center of why we first fell in love with canines, why we nonetheless love them 1000’s of years later, and why they’ve all the time beloved us proper again. Put together to take a look at your personal pup in an entire new mild.
What are early readers saying?
Whereas there’s a one-star evaluation (the e-book is dry and the info 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 wished 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.
If you happen to assume FOR THE LOVE OF DOG may be for you, I strongly suggest checking in together with your native unbiased bookstores or your public library, and if on-line is healthier for you, listed here are some hyperlinks:
If you happen to’re within the Indy space, I hope to see you for the launch occasion on Thursday!
Earlier than I shut for as we speak, I wished to ask: Is anybody curious about a behind-the-scenes story of how this e-book happened? 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 canines??
In any other case, thanks a lot for being right here, for sharing on this neighborhood of canine lovers, and in your help of my work. I’m so deeply grateful.
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