Thanks, Sara.

“At the center of this narrative is the artist-farmer Sam Bartlett, whose observations flow easily from the sensual peculiarities of heirloom herbs to the challenges of fickle Texas weather. The effect is deeply sensorial and an emotional delight: seeing through the eyes of a painter, feeling the shifts of seasonal temperature, to dreaming as a blue tick hound might. Motley paints an homage to farming as a creative act, and the reader is invited to reconnect to this most ancient profession with Texas candor.”? Sara Cardona, artist (Dallas & Mexico City)

Some of the Independent Bookstores in Texas that carry “The Art of Farming: Sketches of a Life in the Country” by TD Motley on shelves daily, include the following: ABILENE: Texas Star Trading Co.; DALLAS: Interabang Books; FT. WORTH: The Dock Bookshop and J. Peeler Howell Fine Art; WACO: Barnes & Noble.

The Art of Farming...by TD Motley is available on-line at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, Tattered Cover, A&M Press, Stoney Creek Publishing, et al, if an independent bookstore isn't nearby.

I hope you enjoy visiting Sam and Annie's farm near Elysia, a little town in Texas, founded by folks with Athenian aspirations, long ago. Sol, a miniature donkey, is the main antagonist in the novel.

Cheers, TD Motley