The Ruby Rose and the Big Little Angels 3 Blog: After a Long, Winding and Difficult Journey Pocket Announces Tails From Rainbow Bridge III is Available for Purchase.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

After a Long, Winding and Difficult Journey Pocket Announces Tails From Rainbow Bridge III is Available for Purchase.

I am proud to announce that Tails From Rainbow Bridge: Pups We Lost in 2018 and 2019 is finally available to purchase by clicking the link HERE. It was a long, twisted route to get this book in print, including subterfuge and me impersonating my sister.

Foley has always used Kindle self-publishing to print her books. She does the writing, and it is up to me to do the hard part, making sure every story begins on a new page, that the picture is under the title and no on the next page, and that they are not too large. I tell you, writing is the easy part. Formatting is hell.

This year Angel Copper told Foley that he would be happy to edit the book, which I am sure everyone who had read Foley’s posts when they were first printed knows is a godsend. Copper is a fantastic editor, and he improved the book immensely.

Once all the edits were made, the book was formatted; an advanced copy was printed and approved by Foley, I informed via e-mail that we were requesting the publisher to put the book on sale. The next day we got an email saying the work was being held up because everything in it is available online, and they needed approval from the owner of the blog, listed as Judge Foley Monster, to publish.

This presented us with a couple of issues that made it hard to show that Foley permitted the blogs to be published. 1: She is a dog. 2: She is a dead dog. We might be able to get them to take the word of a dog, but it was doubtful they would listen to a dog who was deceased.

I saw Foley in my dreams. She told me that I had to meet with the publishers, pretend to be her, and convince them that I had the authority to approve the book being printed. The good news is that because of COVID; the meeting would be conducted via ZOOM. The bad news is that I am no Foley.

I set up the ZOOM meeting and met with the Barnes and Noble executives. I told them that I was indeed Foley Monster. They said that Foley was strong, smart, confident, and articulate. I peed myself a little and began nervously licking my paw. After several more questions, I caved and admitted I was not Foley, I was her sister, but I had her proxy, and she said I could publish her work. The connection went dead, and I did not get an answer.

We went for a few weeks without getting a response from the Kindle executives. Foley was afraid that they would never render a decision, and she began to investigate other companies. She settled on Barnes and Noble’s press and told me to upload her manuscript to them for publishing.

Everything about the new book had to be reformatted because the template was a different size. One by one, I went through the 111 chapters and photos to make sure they were all formulated correctly. Then I had to do a new cover, which was exhausting because it wouldn’t allow me to design one that matched the Kindle cover. After weeks of working on it, the book was finally ready to be published. The last thing I needed to do was to say the book had not been published anywhere else. I agreed it couldn’t and clicked publish.

I got home, opened my email, and saw that Kindle publishing bought my act, and they were now printing our book. Egads! Now I had two publishers! I talked with Foley, and we decided to choose the Kindle book because the proof looked more professional. I tried to inform Barnes and Noble that we no longer needed the book published, but I got no response. My gosh! Now Barnes & Noble will think I am a fraud, and I will never be able to go into their one remaining store in Maine.

Below I have put a list of chapters so you can see if your angel is featured. We only get a nickel a book and would have to sell 2,000 to make any money, which isn’t realistic, but that is fine. We don’t do this for the money, but to honor the dogs and parents we have lost. That is better than getting paid.

I hope you enjoy Foley’s latest book, and we are happy to present it to you. Sorry for the long wait.

Note: Below is a list of the dogs and stories featured in the book. The table of contents needed to be updated one more time, and I did fix it in the Barnes and Noble edition, but not in the Kindle. Chapter 22 has been removed at Copper’s suggestion because it had to do with a dog rescue from a bad parent, and three other names listed in bold are not listed in the table of contents.

Now I am going to lie down. Being Foley is hard.