FEATURED AUTHOR: JENNIFER SKIFF
AUTHOR OF: THE DIVINITY OF DOGS: True stories of
miracles inspired by man’s best friend
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It wasn’t until I edited my first book, God Stories, and received thousands of stories about people’s connection with the Divine, that I realized my personal experience with dogs was shared with countless others. People wrote and told me about the private moments that changed their life. Their stories were profound and amazing – the type that warm your heart and make you cry out loud. They catapulted me into other people’s trials, leaving me with a sense of appreciation for all I have. I decided these were stories that needed to be told, to document the divinity of dogs and to give us a library of inspiring life lessons. |
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FEATURED AUTHOR: KEN FOSTER
AUTHOR OF:I’m A GOOD DOG: Pit Bulls, America’s
Most Beautiful (and Misunderstood) Pet
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When my memoir The Dogs Who Found Me came out, so many people were moved to buy it because there was a pit bull on the cover--and that was their dog. They had never seen a dog like theirs on a book cover before. After hearing from all of these wonderful pit bull owners, I wanted to do a book that looked at the history and image of the pit bull. But no one would publish it. It didn't matter that The Dogs Who Found Me had sold so well with a pit bull on the cover. I even had one publisher tell me that members of their staff had threatened to quit if they published it. |
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FEATURED AUTHOR: MICHELLE SATHE
Author of PIT STOPS and PIT STOPS 2
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It was her freckled pink nose and sweet kisses that got me. I was a reporter covering a story on The Brittany Foundation, a no-kill dog rescue in Agua Dulce, California, when I met Loren. She sprang from her kennel, hugged my legs, and gave me the first of what would be many smooches. |
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FEATURED AUTHOR: JULIE LEWTIN
AUTHOR OF: GET POLITICAL FOR ANIMALS
and Win the Laws They Need
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Local and state laws to protect animals are primitive and poorly enforced. I want that to change, and it can! The time and energy that advocates expend in their pursuit is wasted because they don’t know the basis for wielding power in the lawmaking arena. The animals pay the tragic price. Animals can get strong laws and enforcement, but only if advocates form political organizations that endorse candidates in their towns, cities, counties, and states. I wrote the book to convince advocates to embrace the political and show them how to do it. It’s a comprehensive, how-to manual that, fortunately, receives amazing praise. I want to create a mini-revolution in how animal advocacy is pursued. |
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FEATURED AUTHOR: LISA PRESTON
AUTHOR OF: Natural Healing for Cats,
Dogs, Horses, and Other Animals
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Animals have always held my interest, and caring well for them naturally follows. I like medicine in general and physiology in particular. I like to know where ideas come from, so the book reports on the founding of so many alternatives. I’m interested in how things—bodies, minds, training issues, whatever—work. I’ve read countless books on dog care and have not found a guide like this available. Most books cover one or two dozen alternative treatments for our animals, and they tended to take a position of being either for or against alternatives. I wanted a fair, comprehensive study, so I ended up doing that study and writing the book. |
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FEATURED AUTHOR: JIM GORANT
AUTHOR OF: THE LOST DOGS
Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
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It was a chance encounter. I came across a small article in the summer of 2008 that mentioned the dogs were being rehabilitated and put up for adoption. I wondered how you rehabilitated fighting dogs and would they be placed in home with other dogs and kids? Also, where had they been all this time (the initial raid took place in April 2007)? I started looking into it and the more I did, the more fascinating the whole thing became. I wrote an article for Sports Illustrated about it and the article turned into the book. |
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