Bestselling and critically acclaimed writer Allen Paul has based his new novel – Honey the Dixie Dingo Dog – Champion of the Strays – on a true story of a swamp dog that’s rescued at the point of being shot. She goes on to become an agility champion. Her breed – the Dixie Dingo or Carolina Dog – is probably the oldest in North America, predating European settlement by many centuries. They were so beloved by the Cherokees that several thousand were taken on the Trail of Tears only to be separated from their masters at the Mississippi River. The dingos then migrated into the southern swamps and bottomlands where many still live today. Here’s what two experts have to say of Allen’s book: “His endearing Honey character speaks in a charming southern voice and with the timeless wisdom of a Huckleberry Finn.” - Ewa Luczak, American literature specialist, Warsaw University “… this page-turning tale is rich in detail and wonderfully captures the landscape.” - Norm Gomlak, former editor at the Baltimore Sun and McClatchy Newspapers Allen’s first book, Katyn: Stalin’s Massacre and the Triumph of Truth, was a bestseller in Eastern Europe and warmly praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and New York Review of Books among others. In 2010-11 Allen completed research under a Fulbright Research Fellowship for his first historical novel, The Amber Eye (due out later this year). He holds a masters from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and lives in Raleigh, NC.