Jawaban:

1. author
2. reporting
3. columnist
4. pieces
5. publisher
6. editor
7. print
8. adaptation

John Grogan had had an interesting and varied career as a journalist before he turned to writing books and became a hugely successful, self-employed

author

. He had done everything from police

reporting

– which involved writing about crimes committed – to being a regular

columnist

writing for several newspapers.

The one thing that John often wrote about in his columns was his pet Labrador, Marley. Public reaction to these

pieces

was incredible and many readers wrote in asking for more of the same. Over the next decade, Grogan wrote a weekly column about his very naughty, but very loveable golden Labrador, whose adventures were followed by thousands of readers.

After Marley’s death, John decided that he wanted to go one step further: he wrote a book about his pet and sent it to the well-known book

publisher

, HarperCollins. The

editor

who read it loved it, the manuscript was accepted and the book came out in

print

in October 2005. It was a huge success, appearing at the top of the bestseller lists for many weeks. In 2008, a film

adaptation

of the novel was made to the delight of the many Marley fans around the world.