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Earphone Award for Whistling Past the Graveyard Audio Book

September 12, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin 2 Comments

Whistling Past the Graveyard Audio Book Earphone AwardAudioFile has awarded the Whistling Past the Graveyard audio book with their Earphone Award (Phonie?) for September 2013. AudioFile awards Earphones to truly exceptional presentations that excel in all the following criteria:

  • Narrative voice and style
  • Vocal characterizations
  • Appropriateness for the audio format
  • Enhancement of the text

Amy Rubinate brought all that and more to her performance! She did such a great job bringing Starla to life. All the credit in the world to her for a phenomenal reading… If only she were available to do all the live readings on book tours…

Whistling Past the Graveyard audio book available from:

Whistling Past the Graveyard Audio Preview

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Spooned in Atlanta (vol. II of the Vanishing Tableware Series)

September 10, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Spooned in AtlantaI’m still catching up from my summer Southern Book Tour and trip to the fabulous Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend. On these two trips, I was lucky enough to several days in the Atlanta area—lucky because I could spend a lot of time with my Atlanta-based writer buddies Karen White and Wendy Wax (as well as some other-out-of-towners, Beatriz Williams, Karen Kendall and Eloisa James—who wouldn’t want to hang with this crowd?). At the Decatur Book Festival I enjoyed seeing my pal Jane Porter and finally got to meet some of my favorite authors for the first time, Susan Rebecca White, Karen Spears Zacharias, Lynn Cullen and Claire Cooke. Add those to all of the great readers and booksellers I met and you get one incredible summer!

Although Karen, Wendy and I are regular critique partners, it’s a rare for us all three to be in the same place at the same time. Most of our work is accomplished via email and telephone (when you all drink a glass of wine at the same time while on the telephone, it does count as not drinking alone). We do squeeze in an annual retreat…it’s always a working “holiday,” the best part being able to literally share a bottle of wine and some awesome Talente Sea Salt and Caramel Gelato (our new addiction thanks to Wendy’s discovery of it).

Susan Crandall and Karen White at Parnassus BooksBoth Karen and Wendy supported my Atlanta book store signings, taking time away from their own work to prop up a tired road warrior and share food and libations. As you may recall from my previous blog Forked in Nashville, Karen took advantage of my little granddaughter, Olivia Grabbyhands, facilitating the accidental “borrowing” of a fork from a local Nashville restaurant. That fork became my little memento of Olivia’s part in my book tour and now sits proudly in my office. Alas, my apologies now must be rendered to a restaurant in Roswell. After a wonderful book signing event at Bookmiser, several of us returned to our restaurant where we’d dined prior to the book signing for coffee and dessert (book signings always call for dessert). I foolishly left my purse at the table while I visited the ladies’ room … seriously, I’ve known Karen for over 17 years, I should know better. Later that night I received a text: “Have you checked your purse yet?” I now have a spoon to go with my traveling fork.

I’ve presented Karen with a challenge. I expect to discover the last piece in my full place setting, a knife. And I expect it to come from a different city than the previous two. But I’m not making it easy for her. My purse is not allowed to be unguarded in her presence. I double-check before leaving every restaurant. And I’m keeping my granddaughter away from Karen until she’s old enough to know that we do not remove things from restaurants that do not belong to us. As I said, I’ve known Karen for a long time. She’s dedicated to her pranks. She’s patient and cunning. I’m sure one of these days I’ll let my guard down and she’ll have her way. Maybe I’ll start carrying a fanny pack instead of a purse—Karen, a fashionista as well as a prankster, would be appalled on so many levels.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Atlanta, Book Festival, Book Tour, Karen White, Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard 3rd Printing

September 6, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Whistling Past the Graveyard Book CoverWhistling Past the Graveyard is headed toward its third hardcover printing at Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster!

We’ve been looking for first editions, and have not been able to come up with any, so if you find one, snap it up!

How can you tell if it’s a first edition? It’s easy. All first editions of Whistling Past the Graveyard are clearly marked “FIRST EDITION” on the publishing page (you know, the one with all the copyright stuff, library organizational information and that all publishing occurs in New York) that we never read because the narrative is really bad. For some reason not all books are marked in a similar fashion. Nobody seems to know why.

But you can also identify a first edition of Whistling from ten feet away. How? Look for the teal paper under the dust jacket.

Gallery Books was so excited about the release that they spent extra on some really nice teal paper that blends in well with the jacket artwork. They haven’t been able to get any more in time for the reprints, so the second editions are tan and we’re soon to find out what color the third editions will be.

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Whistling Past the Graveyard in the Chicago Tribune

August 23, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Whistling Past the Graveyard Book CoverSusan Crandall and Whistling Past the Graveyard are mentioned along Chuck Klosterman’s latest, I Wear the Black Hat in a Chicago Tribune article entitled “There is evil in the world … and good!”

Article author Liz Smith says of Whistling Past the Graveyard:

“I just closed a new book by the prolific Susan Crandall (she has written nine novels!) It is titled “Whistling Past the Graveyard” and is the latest pride and joy of its publishers — again, Simon and Schuster. This is a work of imagination in the mind of a 9-year-old child that might remind you of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” or Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help.”

It’s a real winner!”

Not too shabby! The entire article is an interesting read, as Smith weaves events from Whistling, I Wear the Black Hat and 30 Rock to tell tales of good and evil from her own life. It’s worth a look if you’ve got the time.

Susan Crandall in Chicago

We’d be remiss to mention the Tribune and leve out Susan’s upcoming visit to the Book Cellar in Chicago on September 27, 2013. She will be doing a reading and a signing in her old stomping grounds (she lived in Chicago for seven years almost a lifetime ago)! Event details can be found on the 9-27-2013 Book Cellar event page here at SusanCrandall.net.

Filed Under: News, Press Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Illinois, Newspaper, Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard in The Tennessean

August 22, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

The Tennessean ran a great article on Susan Crandall and Whistling Past the Graveyard. Well worth a look if you’ve got the time!

Filed Under: News, Press Tagged With: Tennessee, Whistling Past the Graveyard

New Whistling Past the Graveyard Review at Popcorn Reads

August 22, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

A great new review for Whistling Past the Graveyard is available on PopcornReads.com. Might want to save the popcorn for the movie, though. You’d hate to get butter all over the pages.

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Susan Crandall Interview on Book Talk Radio

August 21, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Susan Crandall recently appeared on WYPL Memphis’ Book Talk Radio for a 30 minute interview on writing and her latest novel, Whistling Past the Graveyard.

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Source: WYPL Memphis Book Talk Radio Podcast

Filed Under: News, Press Tagged With: Audio, Author Interview, Book Talk, Whistling Past the Graveyard

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