Category: Nonfiction
Posted on September 12, 2022
by Author Melissa Crandall
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A bit ago, round about the time I received my concussion, I also received an inquiry from the book lovers/promoters at Shepherd.com about whether I’d like to promote ELEPHANT SPEAK by also helping to promote the work of others. I did a bit of… Continue Reading “Attention Writers and Readers: Introducing Shepherd.Com”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Authors, Books, Booksellers, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Writers, WritingTags: Animals, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Shepherd.com, Writing
For those of you in the Cleveland and surrounding areas, I’m proud to be taking part in the 15th Annual Author Alley at Loganberry Books ( http://www.loganberrybooks.com/) on August 20 from noon to 4 pm. This section of the Alley is for nonfiction and… Continue Reading “Loganberry Books, August 20”
We’re a (very) short three weeks and four days from the beginning of Loganberry Books’ Author Alley gatherings. For three Saturdays in a row, the good people at Loganberry Books will bring together up to 30 area authors to talk about their work. Each… Continue Reading “Three Weekends of Writers”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Books, Elephant Speak, Loganberry Books, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Washington Park Zoo, Writers, Writing, ZooTags: Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Loganberry Books, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
Please pass the word along to your reader friends near and far. We’re bound to have a fun time talking about elephants, not to mention all the other stuff that crops up. Hope you’ll join us in September at the Thompson Branch of Geuga… Continue Reading “Coming Soon to an Ohio Near You”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Writers, WritingTags: Animals, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
…is often how it goes in this game of writing, or at least that’s my experience of it. Famine, feast, famine. It’s an oft-used example, but it really is a lot like one loose pebble on a hillside. Once it begins to roll, you… Continue Reading “Momentum Like a Long, Low Swell…”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Oregon Zoo, Zookeeper
I’m so very proud to have been able to participate in the Newburyport Literary Festival, forced to go virtual thanks to COVID-19. You can access the various segments on YouTube, and see mine here: Newburyport Festival
Category: Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Newburyport Literary Festival, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Writers, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Newburyport Literary Festival, Ooligan Press
Host John Valeri was kind enough to add me to his roster of authors. You can watch the interview here.
By the end of our day at the zoo–and walking around Portland, window-shopping and stuffing ourselves with great food–I was more toast than human. We’d planned on driving the three hours of Bend, OR that night, but Ed and I were both so wrung… Continue Reading “World Tour – The Final Two Days”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing, ZooTags: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing
By the time my Powell event began, we were 130 strong (or more). Staff had to bring in more chairs, and even then there were people standing in the back. I was delighted that so many came out to wish the book Happy Birthday… Continue Reading “World Tour, Part Two”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore
Okay, so maybe not the entire world, but let’s not get too picky here. I did cross an entire continent for these events, and it’s a grand thing I’m a morning person, because I usually have to get up at something like o-dark-stupidly early… Continue Reading “World Tour, Part One”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Booksellers, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nonfiction, Powell's Bookstore, WritingTags: Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore
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