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A New Look

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How to Bury Your Dog has a new look. Last year I entered it in BookLife‘s cover redesign promotion and Michelle with Melissa Williams Design decided to take it on as a project. Here is the delightful cover she provided. Here is a link to Michelle’s take on the cover.

A bit of history: The original cover was my design concept, implemented by a very talented illustrator friend. We both have realized, in retrospect, that I should have left the cover design to her. That is how we proceeded with Ephemeral Wings, which has a beautiful cover. Lessons learned on this journey.

Goodreads Giveaway for Ephemeral Wings and Some Interviews

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A Goodreads Giveaway for Ephemeral Wings is running September 18 thru October 5. Entering is easy, and you would be doing me a great personal favor by increasing the book’s visibility. Go here to enter.

I also did two fun interviews recently, one with a fellow Black Rose Writing author, which you can find here. The other was with IndieReader and can be found here.

“How to Bury Your Dog” Kirkus Review and Goodreads Giveaway

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Pretty jazzed about the review “How to Bury Your Dog” received from Kirkus Reviews:

An absorbing, restorative tale of community and nature.—Kirkus Reviews

Read the full review here: Kirkus Review

I am running a Goodreads Book Giveaway October 1-30, 2021

Enter Giveaway Here: Goodreads Giveaway How to Bury Your Dog

How to Bury Your Dog—A Novel (in case you were wondering)

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Arriving December 2, 2021 and available for pre-order at Black Rose Writing, Amazon.com, and BN.com.

Signed copies available directly from author.

Lizzy has been leading an insulated life: she tends her adopted strays and goes to work at the blood lab, but she has forsaken lifelong pastimes and declines invitations from old friends. On the day she buries Happy, the abandoned basset hound she adopted years before, she learns a real estate developer is threatening the heart of her rural community—a tranquil pond and a relict stand of hemlocks. For Lizzy this is a magical place, hidden from the modern world.

Coaxed by an old friend to join a group fighting the development, Lizzy is reluctant—she wants to avoid both hope and him. But she realizes she can no longer keep the outside world at bay. As the battle over the development unfolds, and the dynamics among Lizzy’s remaining pets shift, she opens herself to two young neighbors who share her love of the natural environment—an awkward sixteen-year-old and an inquisitive ten-year-old. And as Happy’s elements return to the earth, buried memories find their way to the surface in increasingly curious ways.

How to Bury Your Dog weaves a quintessentially American story about our human connection to the land, the critters we love, and the people who complicate our lives – for better or worse. Rich with authentic characters and lovely descriptions of the natural world, Eva Silverfine’s big-hearted novel deftly tackles complex issues such as homeowners’ rights versus the collective good, and our instinctive desire to protect the garden that sustains us. —Ginger Pinholster, author of City in a Forest

With gorgeous prose and vivid description, Eva Silverfine reminds us of all that the Earth offers if we choose to listen. —Christina Consolino, author of Rewrite the Stars

A charming debut novel about the loss of our natural landscapes and the footprints we leave, as well as the tender memories we carry with us as we go forward. —Linda Rosen, author of Sisters of the Vine

A heartwarming tale of ordinary people who care about the environment. —Carolyn Geduld, author of Who Shall Live