Another Bad-Dog Book

Tales of Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior

By Joni B. Cole
(PublishingWorks, Paperback, 9781935557166, 214pp.)

Publication Date: October 2011

Categories: Essays, Dogs - General, Form - Essays

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Author of Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive, Library Journal “strongly recommended” the book for writers, teachers, and workshops. Joni B. Cole is also founding creator of the acclaimed This Day in the Life series, a three-book collection of women's daily lives. Her humor and human interest essays have appeared in her monthly newspaper column as well as assorted literary journals. She is also a frequent contributor to The Writer magazine. Co-founder of the Writer’s Center in White River Junction, Vermont, Cole has taught writing for over fifteen years, and is a popular speaker at writing conferences around the country. She lives in Hartford, Vermont with her husband and two daughters.

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Despite its title, this collection of personal essays from Cole (Toxic Feedback) is not a dog book. Instead, this is a person book, and its scope is personal, for better or worse. Cole shares her most private thoughts: her worries that her husband is not her “best friend”; her obsession with her previous book's Amazon.com rankings; her shock, after friend-ing her high school crush on Facebook, only to discover that he is an aggressive poster of right-wing rants…Nevertheless, by the end of this friendly, honest book, the reader will feel much affection for Cole, her little brood, and her bad dog.” Publisher’s Weekly