Book Trailers and The Dog Year

There is absolutely no way that you can watch this video without smiling! The land of book trailers can be a little hit-or-miss, but Ann Garvin just nailed this one! This promo video is almost as funny and adorable as The Dog Year, which is almost as wonderful as Ann herself! 

We randomly met at the only writing conference I have ever been to, and, low and behold, she’s published at Berkley too! She has been so supportive during all of my nail biting, which is incredible because in addition to being an amazing writer, she’s a professor of nutrition and creative writing and a mother! I don’t know how she does it…

Anyway, her book was released last week, and I had to tear myself away from the first couple of chapters to finish my own book and can’t wait to delve back in. I’m already loving it. Even in the first couple of chapters, her characters are so real and totally relatable. Here’s The Dog Year back cover info:

“Dr. Lucy Peterman was not built for a messy life. A well-respected surgeon whose patients rely on her warmth, compassion, and fierce support, Lucy has always worked hard and trusted in the system. She’s not the sort of person who ends up in a twelve-step program after being caught stealing supplies from her hospital.

But that was Lucy before the accident—before her husband and unborn baby were ripped away from her in an instant, before her future felt like a broken promise. Caught red-handed in a senseless act that kept her demons at bay, she’s faced with a choice: get some help or lose her medical license.

Now she’s reluctantly sharing her deepest fears with a bunch of strangers, avoiding her loneliness by befriending a troubled girl, pinning her hopes on her husband’s last gift, and getting involved with a rugged cop from her past. It’s only when she is adopted by a stray mutt and moves her group to the dog park that she begins to truly bond with the ragtag dog-loving addicts—and discovers that a chaotic, unplanned life might be the sweetest of all . . .”

Doesn’t that sound like exactly what you’d want to read on the beach this weekend? I know I will be! You can pick it up at your local bookstore or at Barnes and Noble or on Amazon.

Here’s one of the many, many glowing reviews the book has received so far:

“Few authors are funnier or more sympathetic than Ann Garvin, and few heroines [are] more in need of comic relief and sympathy than Dr. Lucy Peterman. The Dog Year is a kind, gentle, honest look at a woman whose life has come apart and a survivor who puts it all back together.”—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of author of A Land More Kind than Home

If you want to know more about Ann and her other books, catch up with her at anngarvin.net, @anngarvin_Twitter or on Facebook. 

So, that’s what I’m reading. What about you?