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December 19, 2007 6:52 PM
Dog Wit Lit
I've just been reading Alison Pace's blog and I've decided that Dog Lit can now officially be classed as a sub-genre (by me, at least).
The second collection of doggy-related writing from The Bark is out now. It's called Howl and follows on from the successful - and brilliantly titled - Dog is my Co-Pilot.
Plus, there's a plethora of 'me and my dog' type tales; look at Marley and Me, Rex and the City and What the Dog Did.
Not enough to convince you? How about all the Canine Chick Lit? Okay, that phrase is never going to catch on and Thank Goodness, but still... There's Pug Hill, The Dog Walker and, um, Sick Puppy.
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Posted by Sarah Painter on December 19, 2007 in Book News, Opinion | Permalink
Comments
Hi there Trashinista friends! Glad you liked the anthology Howl! I am an editor at The Bark magazine, and have been reviewing dog books for that magazine (and writing the "Rex and the City" column) for seven years. I must say that chick lit books featuring dogs have been around for several years, but that none of them have been stellar enough to warrant enough attention to start a new genre. In the past year, however, since the success of Marley and Me (and, yes, or "Rex and the City") we've noticed at the Bark that the number of dog books and chicks-with-dogs novels getting pumped out by publishers has quadrupled! So be prepared for a deluge. And, in my defense, I started my book Rex and the City several years before John Grogan wrote Marley and Me....it just took me a long, long time to finally hand a draft over to my editor. I'm too much a perfectionist and I spent two years revising the darn manuscript! So my advise to any dog-memoir-writer wannabees! Submit your manuscript NOW!
Lee Harrington
Posted by: Lee Harrington | December 26, 2007 7:29 PM
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