The current featured duo at Coffee with a Canine: Katherine Keenum and Palmer.The author, on how she and Palmer were united:
After our previous dog died in December 2010, I got in touch with his breeder, who in turn put me in touch with a colleague, who just happened to have a winter litter. My husband and I were not sure we were ready for a new puppy yet, but we went to visit in February 2011. Need I say more? It is a joy to us that Palmer’s and Badger’s bloodlines cross. (And the late Badger is now called...[read on]About Keenum's recently released debut novel, Where the Light Falls:
As the Belle Epoque dawns, Paris attracts artists from everywhere. One is Jeanette Palmer, daughter of a prominent Ohio family, who has left Vassar College under a cloud of scandal.Visit Katherine Keenum's website and blog.
Amid the city’s great bohemian neighborhoods and teaching studios, Jeanette befriends other female artists, as well as an American Civil War veteran named Edward Murer. She begins to achieve a level of artistic success. And her happiness increases as she and Edward grow more intimate with each other.
But Edward is plagued by his demons and addicted to laudanum—and as the world opens its arms to Jeanette, and the society around her is transformed by cultural and scientific innovations, she must resolve a conflict utterly new to so many women: the choice between ambition and love.
Read--Coffee with a Canine: Katherine Keenum and Palmer.
--Marshal Zeringue
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