News
Whistling Past the Graveyard was featured on KSL5, Utah’s Studio 5 with Brooke Walker as one of the best summer reads of 2014 along with other bestsellers
Teir Harman is kind enough to call Whistling… “A book that got everything right…”!
Pack ’em up and head for the pool! You’ve got some reading to do.
Whistling Past the Graveyard is a finalist for the 2014 SIBA Book Award in fiction! She joins great books including Guests on Earth by Lee Smith (Shannon Ravenel Books), Life After Life by Jill McCorkle (Shannon Ravenel Books), Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Doubleday Books) and The Tilted World by Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly (William Morrow & Company) competing for the honor.
Whistling Past the Graveyard and Susan Crandall were recently featured in Cincinnati’s weekly City Beat. A quick, insightful interview regarding the process and thinking behind Whistling Past the Graveyard‘s creation is featured.
When I heard Amy’s interpretation of Whistling Past the Graveyard on the audiobook, I was blown away. Not only do I feel she did an outstanding job, the industry does also; she received the Golden Earphones Award for her work on this book.
Take a listen. This interview offers her insight to the book and her process. http://www.myaudiobooksradio.com/My_Audiobooks_Radio/Backstage.html
And if you’re interested in the audio here are some easy purchase links:
Here’s a little video I helped with at SIBA 2013. It’s a Book is a children’s book to explain what a book is. Give it to your tween, or save your grade-schooler before it’s too late!
Goodreads Choice Awards Contest
To spread the word about Whistling Past the Graveyard‘s nomination for Best Historical Fiction in the 3012 Goodreads Choice Awards, we’re running a contest to win a set of signed paperback copies of Susan Crandall’s backlist books (includes: Back Roads, The Road Home, Promises to Keep, On Blue Falls Pond, A Kiss in Winter, Pitch Black, Seeing Red and Sleep No More).
All you have to do is share the news on Facebook or Twitter and include #WhistlingPasttheGraveyard using one of the buttons below:
(Be sure to add the hashtag #WhistlingPasttheGraveyard in the “Write something…” box)
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By setting the image below as your Facebook Cover
(right-click image, “Save image as…”)
and sending a screenshot to contest@susancrandall.net.
Or you can do both, and you will be entered twice!
Don’t forget to vote!
Whistling Past the Graveyard was picked by Marian’s Library for their fall harvest of recommended reads. It’s an honor to be included with other great authors like Tom Franklin (whose The Tilted World, which he wrote with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly, is a novel we’re anxiously awaiting), Jo Nesbo, Julie Kibler and the rest!