....................Attention: Dog-Loving Fans of Hollywood..................... .....................Did Patrick McDonnell Steal This Name?.......................

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According to Amazon.com,  Stephen M. Silverman has authored  seven books.
This is one of them:

Published by ABRAMS BOOKS
(2001)

According to imdb.com (internet movie data base), he has nine  film credits.

He is also a very nice man.

However, the last statement cannot accurately be hyperlinked:
I was given that information by the designer of the book,
the woman presently known as "Mrs. CarPeo."

If all she had to say about the book was that
the author was a nice man, this page would not exist.

But surely, I will paraphrase:

MOVIE MUTTS was not a best seller.

It was a good seller but the cover above
was not the original design.
This is:

It is mistakenly believed that a book designer
does nothing more than design the cover.

This book, like so many other Abrams books,
contains many photographs.

To co-ordinate the ratio and perspective
of text-to-photo requires endless hours

After forty hours of book designing,
MOVIE MUTTS was approved by the author.
But then the marketing department declared:

It needs a dog on the cover.

Carol liked Stephen Silverman but she loved COCO the Collie.
As a result, the additional twenty hours brought about by
the revised cover proved to be a labor of love.  

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