Like millions of adults and children over the years, I fell in love with Collies at an early age. When I was about five, we had a mahogany Collie named Macintosh (after the red apple) He was a wild one. We lived in a more rural area at the time, surrounded by farms and Mac would run off sometimes for days at a time and chase rabbits and other small game. He often got in trouble for chasing one neighbor's sheep and on one occasion, came back with some buck shot in his back end.

In my teen years, we had Lad, whom my sister named after Lad from the Terhune novel Lad: A Dog. Now we have Jack. But obviously Lassie and the Terhune books are what made many people come to know and love this wonderful breed. As Jack grew and experienced some of the things in his life, I realized that I felt like I was living in the middle a Collie story. It didn't take much to put real-life on paper and create "Jack". I also felt that since Terhune died in 1942 and Eric Knight (the creator of Lassie) died a few years after that, there had really been no novels of that type for quite a while. Yes there were Lassie movies and TV shows, but no full-length novels as in the past. So this is my attempt to contribute to this wonderful classic genre.

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