Judy Savage talks about her new book “Rossi the Approval Poodle” with Lillie-Beth Brinkman, editor, and Melissa Clark, photographer, on Parties Extra!  Suzanne Green, graphic designer, was not able to be there.

Rossi the Approval Poodle. (Photo by Lane Savage).

Judy Savage has written a book. It is called Rossi the Approval Poodle. It is about her lovely dog Rossi, a black standard poodle with the bouffant hair style.

You remember Rossi. She ‘s the one who goes to the libraries and children read to her. She visits schools and hospitals since she is a certified therapy dog. We wrote about her in 2009. (Click here to read that story:  http://tinyurl.com/y9uqo2e )

Judy has  been working on her book since March. After she wrote it, she put together a team—an editor (Lillie-Beth Brinkman), a photographer (Melissa Clark) and a graphic designer (Suzanne Green). Then this group met weekly. Each time they met Judy cooked gourmet dinners for the entire group who sometimes brought their children with them for meetings.

Judy’s dinners were cooked from “The Pioneer Woman’s Cookbook.”   “I love to cook,” the enthusiast- for- life, related, “so I just cooked for my team and then we worked. ”

And they did work. They put together a darling book with rules for living including those that Rossi lives by and approves – 1) Respect; 2) Obey; 3) Be Safe; 4) Be Social;  5) Be Important. They learned about different types of paper, ISBN numbers, bar codes, publishers cataloging data.

The book team read page proofs; they had fun together. They laughed. They cried. They argued (only a little) and they now have a book printed and ready for sale.

And the best part…the book is the first of a series. The next book is already being written by Judy (with only a little help from Rossi.)