Next Tuesday, my traditional opening for my 25th book tour for “Talking To Animals: How You Can Understand Them And They Can Understand You” will be at my hometown bookstore.
Our President is sucking up most of the oxygen in the media world, but I have high hopes fro this book, a study in very personal animal communications, an exploration of the ways in which we need to understand animals, and a history of my own quite complex and intensely emotional life with dogs and cats and donkeys and sheep and barn cats and a few cows and chickens and a pony or two.
It’s been quite a ride. The book goes on sale nationwide next Thursday, but my tour begins in the usual place, Battenkill Books, my own bookstore.I’ll be reading and answering questions there from 7 p.m. There is no better place to kick off a book tour.
On May 3, I’ll be on the radio for an hour at 2p.m. (WAMC.org) with Joe Donahue talking about my book and dogs.
Then I’ll be off to Mystic Connecticut for the Connecticut Library Association (with Red) meeting in Mystic on May 4 at 4 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel.
Later in May, I’ll talking and reading at the Chatham Library, (May 5, 3:30 p.m.) and then Tuesday, May 23 I’ll be talking and reading at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, N.Y., from 6 to 8 p.m. (Red is coming.) I’ll post other appearances later on in the month.
I’ll also be posting topics daily on my Facebook page and answering questions there.
An increasingly important element in my book life now is Battenkill Books, which has already taken nearly 700 pre-orders for “Talking To Animals.” I will sign and personalize any book purchased there and the first 1,000 people who pre-order will also get a classy tote-bag, focused on literary dogs. I’ve been signing books there all week, I hope to get to 1,000 by publication date, and then we’ll get to work on the next 1,000.
You can also order the book by phone, 518-677-2515.
You can support my work, learn about animals, be challenged and perhaps surprised about your views on animals, and support a great independent bookstore if you order or pre-order through Battenkill. They take paypal and major credit cards and are quite nice. Check it out here.