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For more information: Cara Jensen, carajensen@sbcglobal.net
Phone:
314.773.2881
Date: July 1, 2005
For Immediate Release
New Novel Features Canine Hero, Global Warming
and Human/Canine Co-Evolution
St. Louis, Missouri – Joy Ward just released her new novel of speculative fiction,
Haint: A Tale of Extraterrestrial Intervention and Love Across Time and Space (ISBN 1-4120-5675-6). Haint’s “leading man”
is a dog, a Weimaraner to be more exact. William Wegman, noted photographer, artist and author of numerous books, contributed
the foreword.
The novel is set in a not-too-distant time in the future after global warming has killed off much of
the world’s human population. Haint, the Weimaraner, is the one who knows the answers to some of the biggest questions in
human history. How did we evolve? Did we have help? In a world torn apart by cataclysmic climate changes, survivors learn
answers to these immortal questions as they join together based on their love of various dog breeds. Haint and his mistress
Amanda, tell the story of how each in their own way come to the realization of what they mean to each other.
Randy
Grim, founder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis, subject of the book The Man Who Talks to Dogs, and author of Miracle Dog highly
recommends Haint. “What would the world be like if we tried to understand their mode of communication rather than demanding
they adapt to ours? What if they are further evolved and closer to the Divine Source than humans? This fascinating tale
of adventure, dog packs, and human survival depends on just this concept.”
Haint is published by Trafford Publishing
based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The book is a trade paperback of 202 pages and is available through Amazon.com, the
Trafford web site and through the author’s website www.joyward.net. Readers can order Haint through any bookstore by use
of the ISBN. The website has more information on availability in different areas. The price is $18.95.
Joy Ward is
originally from Memphis. She received a BA in International Relations and an MA in Political Science from Memphis State University.
Later, she earned an MSBA in Management from The University of Memphis.
Ward’s writing has been seen in many venues.
While in Memphis, she was a regular columnist for Memphis Woman (then Women’s News of the Mid-South) and her work appeared
in The Riverfront Times. She was London-based Government Review’s US Editor for Business and Politics. Ward’s writing also
appeared in Mother Jones, On the Issues and a number of other national and regional publications. She spent time as the head
writer for Commerce Magazine. Ward has also been a consumer psychology consultant for well over a decade.
Ward comes
to her love and knowledge of dogs honestly. She was raised in a family of animal aficionados. Besides dogs, her home also
hosted horses, goats, chickens, turtles, birds and the occasional small primate. Wegman’s beloved Fay Ray was born in Ward’s
family home in Memphis. Ward now lives in the Tower Grove area of St. Louis with her three Weimaraners, Sol, Cloudy and their
daughter Star. Annie, a Redbone Coonhound, completes the family.
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