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This is a fundraiser for Safe Haven Kennels, a sanctuary for unadoptable dogs that took in eleven dogs from a hoarding situation and will care for them for the rest of their lives. Safe Haven is located in Nevada. It is a haven indeed, as each dog has a cottage with a yard and greenery, even a wading pool. The permanent resident dogs are severely traumatized from neglect and abuse, but, under the loving care of Safe Haven staff, they have learned to do normal dog activities like going for a walk, playing, or even being petted. Safe Haven is where I wish every troubled dog could go.
The fundraiser is a book. I will give three dollars (that’s double my profit!) for each book sold. I’m posting this here because the book is a collection of short stories, many of which were posted here on Kos and featured on Community Spotlight. Those storied include “The Collie”, “The Angel”, and “Arnie’s Last Ride”.
The book is entitled The Dog Thief and Other Stories, by Jill Kearney, and is now available as an ebook or a paperback. Here’s a video of my publisher reading the first chapter of the novella “The Dog Thief”.
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If you decide to buy the book, here’’s the link: www.amazon.com/...
My book is listed as one of the one hundred best books of 2015 on Kirkus Review.
Here are excerpts from the review from Kirkus Review magazine:
“Kearney’s impoverished, misfit, outcast characters live mainly on the fictional Sebequet Peninsula, which features a Native American reservation, ramshackle trailer parks and plywood cabins surrounded by trash and rusting metal. In this zone of squalor and despair, people’s connections with animals are, for many, their only links to life. ,,,The Sebequet-based stories are remarkable for their understated, yet vivid, realism and their pitch-perfect rendering of the hard-bitten poverty and frayed social fabric of rural America.
Kearney’s prose is elegant and unfussy, with threads of humor and lyricism. She has an excellent eye for settings and ear for dialogue, and she treats her characters, and their relationships with their pets, with a cleareyed, unsentimental sensitivity and psychological depth. Through their struggles, she shows readers a search for meaning through the humblest acts of caretaking and companionship.
A superb collection of stories about the most elemental of bonds. “
Link to complete Kirkus Review: www.kirkusreviews.com/...
I hope you will consider buying the book. Just to inspire you, I will try to post some pictures in the comments.