I’ve been fascinated by nature and wildlife since I was a toddler. Have you had any other notable experiences with wild animals in general, and wolves in particular? You were obviously fascinated by this wolf. Even with pictures to anchor our memories, it still feels as if our lives were folded into a story, a series of events too vivid, compressed, and emotion-laden to be real. That’s the thing about the entire experience. Even with a picture to prove it really happened, this moment, and the years that followed, living near a wild, sociable and strangely gentle wolf, with a glacier-draped mountain backdrop, seem unreal, like something we dreamed, or a film we were watching. He’s two years old there, full grown but still not filled out, totally relaxed with us standing there just a few feet away, shamelessly flirting with our dog, who’s pretty relaxed herself. That’s the actual photo from the opening scene of the book, the first time my wife, Sherrie, our dog, Dakotah, and I met the wolf we’d come to call Romeo. That’s quite a striking cover shot-a huge, wild Alaska wolf and a Labrador retriever facing each other. Nick Jans Answers questions about A Wolf Called Romeo
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