Books
Three books on Amazon. I wrote all of them with Claude.
Not PDFs I sell off my own site. Real Amazon listings, with paperbacks you can hold and a hardcover for the kids' one. Two for pet owners, one for their children. Go look them up.
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For owners taking a dog home after surgery
The Dog Owner's Post-Surgery Survival Guide
What Your Vet Wants You to Know About Recovery at Home
The conversation I have in the exam room every week, written down. Cones versus surgery suits, what a normal incision looks like on day two versus day five, and why the fourteen days after a laparoscopic spay matter more than the two-centimeter scar suggests. My rule is in there: a few days of annoyance beats redoing a surgery.
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For pet owners who think they are being overcharged
Why Are Vet Bills So Expensive?
What you're really paying for, from a vet who sets his own prices
I set the prices at my own clinic, so I can just show you the arithmetic. Where the money in an estimate actually goes, how to tell an honest range from a padded one, what to do when you genuinely cannot afford it, and the red flags worth walking out over. Thirteen chapters, and it argues against my own interests in a few places.
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For animal-obsessed kids aged four to eight
I Want to Be a Vet!
A Coloring & Activity Book for Future Animal Doctors (Ages 4-8)
Fifty pages of animals to color, mazes, a word search, real facts from a working vet, and a Junior Vet certificate to fill in at the end. Built page by page in code rather than drawn by hand, which is its own small argument for what these tools can do.
See it on Amazon
Anyone can do this, and almost nobody does.
Kindle Direct Publishing has been free and open to anyone for years. That part is not new. What changed is that the work between having something to say and having a finished book, the drafting, the editing, the interior layout, the cover, the file that actually passes review, stopped being a project you hire out.
I wrote these the way I build software. Talk through the messy version, argue with it, correct it until it sounds like me. On the vet bills book I ran every chapter past two invented readers first, a skeptic and an anxious owner, and rewrote after each pass. That book went from about 15,000 words to 18,600 because those two kept finding holes.
The printed part is the bit people do not believe. Amazon prints and ships each copy when somebody orders one. No print run, no inventory, no money up front. You upload an interior PDF and a full cover wrap, they check it, and a real book with your name on the spine turns up at your door.
It is not a magic button. KDP rejected the vet bills interior the first time for text outside the margins, which turned out to be the page number sitting about a fifth of an inch too close to the edge. The spine width has to be calculated from the exact page count. The coloring book needed its gutter corrected so the artwork did not vanish into the fold. All of that is findable and fixable in an evening, and none of it needs a publisher.
Thinking about writing one?
Tell me what it would be about, or what is stopping you. I have made every mistake in the list above and I will happily save you the time.