I'm not the only one. Shreve gets visitors from around the globe and we are all united in one thing--we love Charlie. Charlie as a nubule, Charlie with blue eyes, Charlie's ears, Charlie smaller than Eli, Charlie surveying the landscape around Shreve's one-room log cabin, Charlie blending in, Charlie wild and free.
Unusual in a blog, words seem redundant--the daily photo allied with Shreve's title sets our imaginations free to enter a very magical state of being.
Feeding our fascination, Shreve occasionally posts snippets about the essence of coyote-ness. Charlie's odor, his coat, his boyishness, and the worries of being a Coyote Mommy in a universe that generally regards coyotes as varmints. She's kind and thoughtful and patient and observant, and she never fails to pluck my heartstrings.
Heaven was discovering recently that Shreve has put up some clips on Charlie and Eli on YouTube.com. Just type in "daily coyote" and three clips show up. It makes Charlie and Eli and Shreve so much more real.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better...Shreve's book about her year with Charlie is going to be published. Guess what people will be getting from me next Christmas?!
Publishers Weekly has announced: "Marysue Rucci preempted world rights to a memoir by 30-year-old photographer
Shreve Stockton titled The Daily Coyote: A Year with Charlie, derived from her
popular blog of the same name; Stacey Glick at Dystel & Goderich made the
sale. The book will chronicle Stockton's first year raising an orphaned coyote
cub as a beloved household pet (and brother to tomcat Eli) in her one-room cabin
in rural Wyoming; Rucci describes it as “Operating Instructions meets Marley
& Me.” The book will also include many of Stockton's photographs, and pub
date is scheduled for fall 2008."
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