Thanks so much for the plug! I try to take care of things quickly, which means faster sometimes than others.

For Thomas
 

You are entirely welcome.
Having a howling good time reading Baltho !


All Best to you,

Wolfdog

Mark your calendars
 

Next Thursday night March 14, 2013 I will be interviewed on the Forever Friends Family show 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific. The shows are archived so you can listen to them at will if you miss the live call in shows. Please join us.

http://foreverfamilyfoundation.org/signsofliferadio.htm


My good friend, writer, and afterlife researcher Dianne Arcangel introduced me to these fine folks.

Melchior seems to be taking up his mantle. Yesterday we visited my psychologists' office. Melchior went out of his way to befriend the hurting. One boy, maybe 10-11 y.o. sitting between his mom and dad, was particularly of interest. Melchior kept going over to see him. Before I knew it, he was up on his lap. Baltho, redux.

I just knew it when he told me he wanted to be called Melchior this time!

Melchior's latest pics (also one of Sky)
 

Interview Tonight!
 

Signs Of Life Radio . . . .
your chance to listen
. . .to question
. . . to learn
Tonight's Guest . . .
Thomas Ramey Watson, PhD
Do Pets Have A Psychic Sense?

Dr. Thomas Ramey Watson is a professor, writer and psychotherapist who is the author of many scholarly writings, but he also writes about journeying in various realms of the mind, the physical world and the soul. He believes that all of us can use the insights gleaned from becoming aware of the intersecting planes of existence for fuller and more deeply lived lives. His book Baltho - The Dog Who Owned a Man tells the story of his psychic relationship with an extraordinary dog that actually assisted him in his psychotherapy practice and life.

www.thomasrameywatson.com


Baltho: The Dog Who Owned a Man
by Thomas Ramey Watson by Barn Swallow Media
Paperback

List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $9.36
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Link to tonight's interview
 

Looks like I've sold quite a few copies of Baltho on Amazon, both paperback and Kindle versions as a result of this interview. I was getting pretty worried since my rank was way up in the 2.5 million category and rising. My friend and endorser Dianne Arcangel, who arranged this Forever Family Foundation interview, said I'd sell lots of books as a result. She was right. Thanks everyone!

Let's keep this going. Since I don't have a publicist your help is everything.

Looks like my sales have shot up after tonight's interview, just as Dianne Arcangel thought would happen.

My Amazon ranking for the paper was 2.5+ million before the interview. Right now it's Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books). The Kindle rank was 1.5+ million. Now it's Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,781 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store).

Evidently Forever Family Foundation puts up the recordings of the entire month's programs at the beginning of the next month. So my interview from mid-March ought to be available in the next few days. I'm sure a number of you would be interested in it. http://foreverfamilyfoundation.org/signsofliferadio.htm

I must be selling some paperbacks and Kindles of Baltho, The Dog Who Owned a Man over the weekend because I've risen quite a bit on my bestsellers rank for both. Thanks to whomever you are.

Please remember to ask you public libraries to order a copy. Some have, I see.

And remember if you order directly from me I'll sign and inscribe it for the regular price. http://www.thomasrameywatson.com/editing/

Forever Family Interview is now available for free listening
 

One of my professional friends told me how much he likes the book. "All your major life themes are there, but everything is very subtle," he said. My literary training leads me in that direction," I said. You want people to have to look below the surface and tease out meanings."

I should have added to the above post: "And make connections, since the foreshadowings of what will be are there, and will become more obvious in the next 2 dog books."

C H writes:
Dexter was a therapy dog . He died on his job last Tuesday.
When my friend CA F sent me a condolence note she mentioned the book she was reading: "Baltho". And then she stopped over and brought me the book. Consumed by my deep sadness, I was curious but afraid of more pain to read about a dog, still, something(maybe Dexter himself) told me to read it.
I am thankful for the comfort it gave me. Here was someone, telling so affectionately about their interwoven bond with the dog, about the connection with such a companion, and there even was a colleague confirming the so true intuition and skills of a therapy dog (which many practitioners dismiss as a sentiment of the therapist dog owner) .
But that was not all, something between the lines in the book curiously helped me. my experiencing of Dexter's transformation shifted.
Now I can allow myself to listen to the lessons and signs Dexter is teaching and showing me since his spirit left his mighty German Shepherd body. I am able to enter a new phase of his "presence" in my life.
(Even though it sucks so bad not to see him, step over him, feed him, stroke him, hear him bark).
So thank Baltho for making you write this book and accept my thank you for writing it. It came to me just when it had to .

With Kind Regards
CH

Often Melchior will find some object of interest on our walks, which he then hauls home to play with. The other night he jumped on something and held it in his mouth, dropping it a few times, before we got to the front door. I'd though it was some raglike chew toy belonging to one of the other dogs in the neighborhood till the porch light made it evident that it was a toad, partly torn apart. He and Sky proceeded to run inside with it, where they promptly devoured in on my carpet.

In the night Melchior performed his usual licking and biting of my ear, moving over onto my mouth and nose. I had a hard time not thinking about the toad he'd devoured a few hours before.

Melchior likes to watch TV, esp. if there are animals and children on the screen. I discovered that he was entranced by this formula when I watched My Dog Skip the other night. He couldn't take his eyes off for more than a few minutes, and not often. He liked the dog on The Artist too.

I see that Hooters is offering free meals to any mother whose family takes her along.

I am reminded of one of the more fun outings with my own mother back in the 90s when I had Baltho. My sister Victoria Baseggio, her kids, I, and our mother were shopping at May D & F. We learned that Fabio had just been there signing posters but had left just before we arrived. We hadn't known of his visit till then.

"Oh no, Mother you wanted to come to May D & F just for a signed poster!" I lamented.

The clerk said, "I'm so sorry but we don't have any more posters. They were gone within an hour."

I looked at my mom and said, "That really is too bad."

"Are you sure you don't have another one hidden away somewhere for my mom?" I asked. "It would certainly brighten her morning to wake up and see Fabio looking down on her with his fabulous face and body."

I looked at my mom, who was trying to ignore me.

"I know how lonely you are. I'm sure Fabio would get your juices flowing like nothing else, except Diane yelling at the cats."

"Yes, I imagine my saliva would be making me choke," she said.

"Well you'd hop right out of bed and be ready to go" I said. A win-win situation, you know."

Melchior watched the imaginative and very funny first episode of Wilfred with me last night on Netflix. It's about a man and an imaginary dog (played by a man in a dog costume). Dog and animal lovers will love it.

Sky, btw, slept through the whole thing. It probably would have scared him. :eek:

I watched episode 2 of Wilford last night and didn't care much for it. It was too over the top for me. I hope episode 3 is toned down a bit.

I've watched the first 13 episodes of Wilford available on Netflix streaming now. There are lots of funny bits, though it's often pretty raunchy. More important, I don't think it goes anywhere. I kept wondering about this throughout.

Mary Steenburgen was in one of the later segments. I wish they'd done more with her. I like her a lot. She was wonderful in the always intriguing Joan of Arcadia--in fact the entire cast was great.