From the introduction:
Zeke could wake me from a sound sleep by staring silently, his desire fully infiltrating my heart. A thousand times, in play, he would lunge for my face and snap, his bite strong enough that it would have disfigured me if he had not stopped short by a quarter inch. And I never flinched once, even when his whiskers grazed my face. I trusted him implicitly, and he me. On his last night, the pain of his arthritis grown more than the drugs could mask, I lifted him the wrong way and it hurt him, and he clamped his jaws around my face. It was the merest touch, tips of his fangs resting softly against my eyelids, and then he pulled away. Even in his blinding, terminal agony he would not harm me.
Walking with Zeke, an edited compilation of several years of writing about my best friend’s life and death, is now available for sale. Softcover, 218 pages, $17.95 US, ISBN 978-0-6151-9611-4.
It will be available through online bookstores and by order at your local independent store soon, but you can buy it here right now. (And I get a bigger cut this way.)
Tell your friends.
Got mine! w00t!
Delighted to see this out there, Chris. Congratulations!
er, I mean, ordered mine. Plus a couple for friends. Lulu’s not *that* fast.
Buell did the cover, right?
most excellent! I’m saving it for next payday.
Congratulations! And thank you.
I would say I can’t wait for mine to come in the mail, but that would be a lie, since I confess I chose the 5-bucks-cheaper Media Mail option. But I will say that you’re a wonderful man and a wonderful writer and that Zeke was clearly a wonderful dog. I hope that’s sufficient.
Oh, I want it! Your stories about Zeke have really touched me and even made me cry… The painting on the cover is beautiful. I’m looking forward to reading it.
¡Felicidades! Hope to see many more books flowing from your pen (rattling from you keyboard just doesn’t sound the same).
buddy and cora have ordered a copy for the local Dog-Lover of the Universe.
... and if one wants an autographed copy?
I ordered mine and I can’t wait to get it and start reading…
Best of luck Chris and thank you for the inspiration to start thinking about getting on with mine! I’m a terrible procrastinator so this is a much-needed push!
Autographed copy, eh? I think this could be arranged.
buddy and cora request a personal visit for the autograph. preferably with a small hike attached. better come quick; the house is about to fall over with all this tail-wagging.
How much slower is the $5-cheaper Media Mail option? I guess I’ll find out . . .
Damn that is a sad writeup…feel bad for animals in great pain like that. My friend at this mmorpg site had to put his dog down after 17 years of friendship…its like a son/brother/best friend at that point.
Sure is, Kyle. It’s hard to come up with the right comparison sometimes. They’re just purer.
They’re just purer.
Yes.
Thanks, Chris.
I’m looking forward to the happy surprise coming to my mailbox sometime soon. I hope the desert is treating you well, if you’re there already. I’m heading that way mid-March, and will think of you if I make it to Mitchell Caverns. And always when I see any J trees.
Congrats, Chris.
Congratulations, Chris! I am so happy for you!
I’ve also ordered and would love to have the author’s signature if that’s not a problem.
hugs from PA
connie
hey, our book came today!!
Hey, ours did too!
Whew!
Hey, Kathy, tell Buddy and Cora to email me and we’ll arrange the book signing-cum-hike.
For people not in the Bay Area (and, in a couple months, the desert), signing will be a little harder to arrange. It’s a downside of going with Lulu: author copies are kinda hard to come by, which means jason’s idea of buying the book, and sending it along with a post-paid return envelope is the smoothest way for me to sign your book. Kinda overly complex.
Lack of a multi-million-dollar promotions budget is another downside. So tell your friends.
(Connie, look for email.)
chris, i suddenly have a full house—daughter home from college on break, son back home because he is sick, on top of the recent kittens we meant to foster so they’d become adoptable, but they stayed a little too feral so i just adopted them. the last few weeks, little spotty, one of the 7-month feral babies, has gotten lame in ways that reminded me of zeke’s arthritis. guess we are in for some kind of a ride, as we sort this out.
i finished the book last night, watching the adopted babies wrestle one another at 4 a.m. thank you! your story of zeke is so powerful.
ze pups would love to see you sometime! if you want. i’ll be in touch when things settle down a little bit.