You may have already heard about Max from my previous writing. Max is going to be ten months young on April 28th. In case you don’t know whom I’m writing about, Max is our Labradoodle puppy, who became our best friend on September 4th. On that date, three hours before we picked up Max from his breeder in Monterey, I started writing “42 Encounters with Dog Lovers”. It took me six months to describe 42 days of Max’s life as a new member of our family. Max is our fourth dog, but the first one where we consciously learned how to help our new four-legged companion to thrive in his new life in the strange world, away from his mom and siblings. During the first forty-two days with Max, we not only had to adjust our lives to accommodate our new “baby”, but to also quickly learn how to help him. In the book, I not only describe our daily experiences together, but I also include passages from different “How to Books” with recommendations for dogs, for each new circumstances we encountered in Max’s behavior. In addition, there are also images of people with dogs that I photographed over the last eleven years, in the different parts of the world. If you’ve seen my first book, “42 Encounters in San Francisco”, you would be familiar with my whimsical way of capturing interesting people. To photograph people with their dogs was more challenging, but I think I succeeded. The result is a great photo-story book which I hope you will not only enjoy very much, but will also buy many copies as gifts for your friends, and will encourage them to do the same. (I think social media was created just to help you in this endeavor.)
Now you might ask yourself, why should you bother and part with your hard earned $24.00 plus $3.95 for shipping and handling? There might be a number of reasons. The first one — the joy you will experience with this book, as well as a few ideas you will acquire to to help yourself and your dog. The other one is that you will help to raise money towards non-profit organizations like SPCA for educational programs to teach dog lovers how to become their dog’s best friend. To start this process I had to invest thousands of dollars of my own money to get the book into your hands. There is no profit in selling books, since there are a lot of different costs and expenses to get it to the consumers. Unless of course, I will manage to lower the cost by selling many books, let’s say one million (1,000,000) of them. I came up with a seemingly large number after finding out that there are about 83 million millennials in the United States alone. Thirty-five percent of them already own dogs, another twenty percent want to have one. In addition, there are about 75 million baby boomers. Plus about 65 million Gen X (those who were born between 1965 and 1984). And this is not counting those who live outside of the United States. In general people love dogs, even if they do not own them. And now you are wondering why I am aiming so low? Time will tell. Meanwhile, I need your help. To entice you, I am offering a special deal to the first one thousand purchases – a Money Back Guarantee. If after you receive the book you will not like it, feel free to let me know. I will reimburse you the cost of the book, while you can keep it or give as a gift to your dog-loving friend. The book just went into printing, and you (and I) will be able to receive it in the middle of May. Please pre-order and place your order now on Encounterspublishing.com, or respond to this email with the number books you would like to pre-order.
If your order is among the first 1000 pre-orders, I will inscribe the book for you and will waive the sales tax. Just click on pre-order and be one of the first among other millions of dog lovers to get the book.