About the Book, Gwendolyn Greene and the Moondog Coronation Ball of 1957 
- Publication date: April 25, 2023
- Pages Count: 56 pages
An extraordinary dog. A nation watching. A secret plea for help.
Time to Read: about 1 hour
When a Gwendolyn Greene’s Australian shepherd McKenna is selected to be the first animal in space, they are on a path to Cold War glory and worldwide stardom. So why did she beg her childhood friend to come rescue her from it all?
Lost Colony is a quarterly magazine of masterfully crafted mid-length (10,000 to 25,000 words) science fiction and fantasy in all of their varieties. This ebook edition includes an Editor’s Note in which the editor explains why this story was chosen for publication.
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About the author, Kevin P. Keating 
After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, Kevin P. Keating became a professor of English and began teaching at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, Lorain County Community College, and John Carroll University.
His essays, stories and reviews have appeared in over fifty literary journals, including Salon, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Blue Lake Review, The Fifth Street Review, The Mad Hatter’s Review, The Avatar Review, The North Coast Review, The Licking River Review, The Red Rock Review, Whiskey Island, Juked, Inertia, Identity Theory, Exquisite Corpse, Wordriver, and many others.
“The Natural Order of Things,” his first full-length book, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes/First Fiction Award. The novel has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and praise from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. His second novel “The Captive Condition” releases as a Pantheon hardcover on July 7 and will be featured at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International.
He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
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My Thoughts 
I’m woefully late with this review since the book was released a year ago, but I finally had a chance to sit down and read it, and let me tell you, Gwendolyn Greene and the Moondog Coronation Ball of 1957 is a fantastic little book (novella, really) that blends heartwarming hometown interaction with elements of science fiction.
As a dog-lover (I have two right now, but used to work in rescue) I appreciated the bond Gwendolyn had with her pooch, and the relationship between them, as depicted by Gwendolyn’s nameless childhood friend, felt so honest and real.
And let’s take a moment to applaud the author’s bravery in giving us a narrator who isn’t named. It’s an interesting choice that lends a compelling sense of ‘otherness’ to what is ultimately a small-town tale.
With a page count of only 56, this novella is a fast read, but overall, a very fulfilling one.
Goes well with: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chocolate milk.