Lower right on the book cover: Fairbanks, who has a supporting role in MRS. PLANSKY GOES ROGUE – audio version on sale at Audible till the 26th. (As Chet and Bernie readers may have noticed I like writing animal characters):

Closer and closer he came, only the top of his head visible, the skin bumpy, like he wasn’t quite a finished product. But of course his kind had been around a lot longer than her kind. Was there something comical about him, like he was one of those rough-edge funnymen, the John Belushi type? She was entertaining that notion when she caught the look in his eyes, and dropped it right away. And was he really at the water’s edge? In fact, were his scaly front feet already planted in the mud, or even the damp greenery beyond the mud? His head rose. Their eyes met.