Bodie on the Road - Travels with a Rescue Pup in the Dogged Pursuit of Happiness
Belinda Jones
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Summary
NetGalley title. Featured in the weekly promotion "Reads to Jump-Start Your Summer," which averages 115,000 views per week Author will be on a Californian book tour from June 5 to June 28, visiting places like Los Angeles, Pismo Beach, Carmel, Cambria, Solvang, Santa Barbara, Coronado, La Jolla, San Diego, and Las Vegas. A Herman Graf book. The book can be described as Eat, Pray, Love meets Marley & Me—how a woman heartbroken after a breakup takes a road trip with an abandoned rescue dog, and how both find themselves in their new bond. Books about the special relationship between dogs and their owners have always been hugely popular. Film adaptations have been made of the bestselling A Dog’s Purpose and Marley & Me. The book overlaps the travel, memoir, and pet categories. Additionally, it provides tips on pet-friendly road trip pit stops and hotels along California State Route 1. The author has previously authored 11 travel/chick lit novels that have done well in the UK—The California Club (Random House, 2003) sold 84,000 copies. Her one travel memoir, On the Road to Mr. Right (Random House, 2004), sold 41,500 copies in the UK. In the US, her novel The Traveling Tea Shop (Penguin, US) sold 2200 copies.