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Read MoreThe Chain
Award-winning suspense novelist Robin Lamont presents The Chain – the first book in The Kinship Series.
Jude Brannock, a seasoned and passionate animal welfare investigator, becomes entangled in the personal lives of a damaged family in a small town where a meat packing plant drives the economy.
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Read MoreThe Kinship Series
Wherever an animal’s worth is measured in pounds … wherever the cages are rusted and hope is lost … where beauty and wonder are reduced to wall trophies … Jude Brannock and The Kinship will be there to fight for the voiceless … the vanishing.
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Read MoreThe Next Project
Hidden behind the windowless walls of testing laboratories, tens of thousands of dogs are force-fed poisonous doses of drugs and pesticides. Few make it out alive. The Kinship is determined to give them a voice.
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When I was eleven, living with my family in Brooklyn, I decided to become a writer. Thus began my first career as founder and chief editor of the family newspaper. Once a week I broke major stories about fights between my seven siblings, the babysitter’s new boyfriend, or the occasional roller skating incident.
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Kaley – the rock star of TAFA 2016
It’s always been hard for us to leave our rescue dog Kaley for any length of time. She’s a rather nervous girl and often won’t eat or even chew on her favorite bone when we’re away. And it’s hard for us to leave her with even the most responsible dog sitter. It would always remind me of when my husband dropped off our five-year-old son at Kindergarten for the first time. When my husband assured him that he would do just fine, the little guy clung to his leg and said, “But you don’t understand. No one here loves me.” That’s our problem leaving Kaley. We know she’ll be fed, taken for walks, and petted. But she won’t be loved. Not the way we love her. SO… This year, we took her to the Taking Action for Animals Conference in Arlington, VA. Certain she would freak out at the crowds – at getting in an elevator – at walking along a busy city street. And she was a nervous dog, no question. But TAFA is a conference filled with people who appreciate, work for, and love animals. And Kaley was a rock star. She’s coming with us from now on. ...
Read More“Hey Sundance, Who Are Those Guys?”
Each day that Ammon Bundy and his band of armed militiamen stay holed up at the Malheur Refuge, they make us wonder, in the words of Butch Cassidy, “Who are those guys?” They’re adamant that they will not leave until the federal government gives them back their land so they can graze livestock wherever they want. Yet in actual truth, they do graze their cattle and sheep pretty much wherever they want. Approximately 230 million acres of federal land out west is allocated for livestock grazing, with the grazing fees less than 10% of what ranchers pay to graze on private lands. Yet even then, most western ranching operations are not economically profitable. And cattle grazed on public land represent less than 3% of the national beef supply. So who are the Bundys and the others who would threaten federal officials with assault rifles to “protect” a nonviable and probably difficult way of life? What do they really want? I think the answer lies in George Wuerthner’s astute observation that the western ranchers’ identity is tied into entrenched American attitudes about beef, cowboys and the western frontier. Wuerthner is an activist and Projects Director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology, publisher of an eye-opening book called Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American...
Read MoreHudson Valley Book Fair
I’ll be doing a reading and signing books at the Hudson Valley Book Fair from 11:00am to 5:00pm on December 12th in Beacon, NY. Come say hi and meet other local authors! Book Signings * Live Readings * Used Books * Baked Goods * Gift Wrapping The First Presbyterian Church of Beacon, 50 Liberty Street, Beacon,...
Read MoreA Close Encounter with Wolves: Gods or Street Kids?
Last month, I reconnected with Maggie Howell at the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, NY. Maggie had been an invaluable resource for me as I was writing The Trap. She took me back to the wolf enclosure (acres of woodlands) where a few of them waited to greet us. I was so moved by the rare opportunity to be so close to the wolves, I wrote the following piece for Elephant Journal....
Read MoreThe Alpha Wolf
Glad that the NY Times published my letter in response to Carl Safina’s editorial regarding the male alpha wolf. For your review: ...
Read MoreDogs on the Inside
If we could do this in every prison, the world would be a better place!
Read MoreUsing Story for Effective Animal Advocacy
Most fiction writers know that a good story is the key to a memorable book, article or screenplay. But business leaders and marketing specialists have been using the art of storytelling for years as a motivational tool. They realize that stories drive transformational change by putting facts into an emotional context. In the short, instructive video below, Jennifer Aaker, Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, discusses a University of Pennsylvania study on how to best...
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