The announcement went out yesterday that the paperback edition of The Dog Food Detective is now officially published. There’s one final decision to be made before everything is in place, although that didn’t stop publication. We’re still evaluating which printer can…

The Final Push to Publication Some folks say “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Others advise “don’t build your business in someone else’s sandbox.” Each saying offers good advice which was heeded as the final pieces of our publishing…

Remember, patience is a virtue (and we’re testing yours once again). It’s been an interesting week here at The Dog Food Detective. What I thought was a sprint to the finish line took an unexpected detour into a new dimension of…

If you’ve been following The Dog Food Detective updates since the beginning, it’s been a long wait. Last November, it seemed overly generous to have set an April 2014 release date. When April came and went, we felt certain that the book would be…

You’ve been patiently waiting for updates on The Dog Food Detective availability. We’ve been impatiently waiting for the arrival of the layout to proof for final corrections. Good news— the proofing copy arrived on Wednesday! Since then we’ve been poring…

Last week, the completed manuscript of The Dog Food Detective got sent to our layout designer. That means two things: 1. Once we receive and approve a sample chapter* the book is one step closer to completion.  2. Your 77 hour prebooking…

Sometime way back in the Winter of 2013, it struck me that April 1 would be an appropriate launch date for the book. It was almost completely written, just needed a few last minute touches and away we went. April…

Late last year, we had an outside editor prepare an evaluation of the project to date. The document that came back indicated that the manuscript was in decent shape. With some copy editing to catch spelling, grammar and consistency errors,…

We’re coming down to our two finalists for a cover design! Would you like to have a say in how the finished products look? Let us know you preference, thoughts or comments on which of these two versions you prefer.…

Sometimes the simplest things turn out to be much more difficult than first imagined. Such is the case of simply naming this book! One would think that after spending a few years writing the thing, it would be a simple…