Hello! We are new residents of the Upper Valley and also authors with St. Martin’s Press of three books. Our subject area is dogs and pet-oriented training. Also, we write a question-and-answer dog column ("Dog Talk") that appears in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts newspapers—and will start appearing weekly in the Valley News in September.

As our column in the Valley News gains readers, we think that local interest in our titles will be strong. Also, the short bio at the end of each newspaper column always includes the book titles, as a way to help sales.

You can see the Dog Talk column and the books on-line at our Pittsburgh paper’s web site. The address is www.triblive.com/frames/featfram.html

Our home is in Norwich, where we live with a Springer Spaniel and a five-year-old daughter.