Book Spotlight and Author Guest Post
15December 28, 2012 by Alice in Readerland
As many of my blog readers will know, I’m a huge animal person. So when I got a chance to feature the book For Animal Lovers by Kim Cano and to talk to her, I knew it would be perfect for my blog!
Book Description
“For Animal Lovers is a short story collection featuring three tales of speculative fiction, humanizing animals, that takes readers away from everyday reality and touches their hearts. Suitable for adults and children over age ten. 10% of sale price donated to the ASPCA® to help homeless pets.
Becoming Sacred –The story of a cow on a farm who plans to escape to India.
Pascal’s Magic– A classic who rescued who tale about an adopted shelter cat.
Abduction at Sea – Deep sea fishing in Florida from a swordfish’s point of view.”
If you get this book, besides getting 3 entertaining short stories, you’ll also be giving 10% of the sale price to the ASPCA to help homeless animals! Sounds like an awesome deal, right?
Read Kim Cano’s guest post below to find out what her best real life story with an animal is, what her writing process was like for this story, and what her favorite moment since For Animal Lovers came out is!
Kim’s Guest Post
The best real life animal experience I’ve had is with my cat, Blackjack. And it happens often. Whenever I put headphones on and listen to this meditation CD I like, about halfway through he comes up and snuggles close to me and falls asleep. I must emit some kind of super-relaxed vibe he likes as he never does that at any other time.
My writing process for this book has been in seeing things from another perspective. For instance, when I got the idea for the third story, Abduction at Sea, I was out on a boat watching my dad fish. After the little guy was caught, I stopped paying attention to my family and started thinking of the swordfish, wondering if he may think of humans as aliens trying to abduct him. The animals I chose for the stories were completely random, only coming to me in the form of a tale that seemed to evolve from a situation I was in. For the first one, Becoming Sacred, I was driving past a farm and saw cows standing there. Later that evening I watched a show on TV about sacred cows in India. From there, I had the idea of Charlie wanting to escape his fate.
My favorite moment since the book came out was when I received my first 5 star Amazon book review from a stranger. What a feeling!
Thanks so much, Kim! Find Kim on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads; and make sure to buy For Animal Lovers on Amazon!
Links to Help Animals
Everyday you can help feed shelter cats simply by answering trivia questions on Free Kibble Kat and help feed shelter dogs by answering trivia questions on Free Kibble. You can also go to The Animal Rescue Site to click daily; with each click you make, they fund food and care for rescued animals.
To find out more on how you can help animals, you can also visit the ASPCA’s website.
What’s the best real life story you’ve had with an animal?
Alice in Readerland 
This looks so cute! :)
Thanks for stopping by & commenting!
The cover’s so pretty–I like that it looks like watercolors. & it’s wonderful that part of the money is donated to the ASPCA!
I like the cover too, the colors are also pretty! I agree, it’s wonderful that some of the money is donated to the ASPCA! :)
Lynn,
Glad you like the book cover. It’s a watercolor created by artist Geoffrey Benzing. Craziest story on how I found him too. I went to see Breaking Dawn part 1. I fell in love with the song they played while Bella & Edward walked down the aisle. I researched who the song was written by and found it to be a local guy, an indie musician from a nearby suburb. His band is called Sleeping at Last. His cd covers were so beautiful, all watercolors created by another artist. I figured I wouldn’t be able to afford him, but contacted him and found that I could!
I was psyched beyond words to have my book cover have a Twilight connection. :)
Kim
I like that you included all the links too.
Thanks for stopping by & commenting! :)
I’m so glad you posted about this. I’m stoked to read it. It’ll be an interesting read. I’m a super animal lover (vegetarian for 6 1/2 years, woo!), so I can’t explain how happy I am something like this is being spread.
Have a good day! (:
Thanks; it’s great that you’re a vegetarian! :) Thanks so much for stopping by & commenting!
Lisa,
I’m a vegetarian too–for the last 6 months. Hubby did it with me! I hope you enjoy my book. I’m currently working on a novella called Dogschwitz, which will be set in the future and highlights the terrible time in Amercian history when millions of animals were euthanized each year.
Kim
Awww. That’s nice a book for an animal charity all about animals. How very cute.
Thanks for sharing! :)
That’s what I thought too! :) Thanks for stopping by & commenting!
This is great! I’ll have to pick this up for a present. I have a friend who would love this. Thank you for sharing! :)
Thanks for stopping by & commenting! :)
I hope your friend enjoys the book. Just a tip: read the first story after you’ve eaten dinner! :)