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Whistling Past the Graveyard Southern Book Tour

June 7, 2013 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Whistling Past the Graveyard Book TourCurrent dates for Susan’s book tour through the southeastern United States are now listed on the Appearances page.

Book Tour Stops Include

Jackson, MS @ Lemuria Bookstore
Greenwood, MS @ Turn Row Book Company
Oxford, MS @ Square Books
Tupelo, MS @ Reed’s Gum Tree Bookstore
Memphis, TN @ The Booksellers at Laurelwood
Nashville, TN @ Parnassus Books
Woodstock, GA @ Foxtale Book Shoppe
Marietta, GA @ Bookmiser
Decatur, GA @ Eagle Eye Book Shop
St. Simons, GA @ GJ Ford Bookshop
Fernandina Beach, FL @ The Book Loft
Wilmington, NC @ Pomegranate Books
Charleston, SC @ Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street
Southern Pines, NC @ The Country Bookshop
Hendersonville, NC @ The Fountainhead Bookstore

Don’t see your town on the list? If you’d like to host Susan Crandall for an event on the Whistling Past the Graveyard book tour, please contact susan@susancrandall.net!

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Prime Life Enrichment Book Club – Carmel, IN

August 21, 2012 By Susan Crandall Web Admin Leave a Comment

Susan Crandall will be involved in a speaking engagement for Prime Life Enrichment’s Book Club on September 28, 2012 from 11:00am to 12:30pm. Click Here for More Details

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Life in the Fast Lane?

March 19, 2010 By Susan Crandall 2 Comments

Really? Fast lane? That’s hardly how I see my life. But lately I seem to be meeting myself coming and going. So here’s an update from my previous blogs:

I had a great brainstorming week with my writer buddy Karen White (The Lost Hours and The Girl on Legare Street — FYI pronounced Legree Street) a few weeks ago. We worked out a few kinks (and added a few intended ones) to my current work in progress. We also brainstormed two books for her. I can’t wait to read them!

I’m still dithering on a title for my newest project, but I’m leaning toward The Last Good Man.

Yoga class (ultra-beginners) is going well for both me and my mom. We still spend a lot of time laughing at ourselves. Let’s just say ridiculously bad balance must be inherited. But always walk out of there feeling so much better and with more energy. You’d think that increased energy would make me more productive. Ha!

Cake class. Hummm, what can I say about cake class? I love the woman teaching it, she has such a wry sense of humor. I get to spend an evening with my daughter, always a plus. Just wish we’d been able to get my daughter-in-law to join us! This session we’re only making one cake, instead of one a week. Good thing ’cause my jeans are getting way too tight. We’re making flowers out of Royal Frosting (it’s the kind that turns nearly rock hard when dried). The last week of class we’re supposed to assemble all of our flowers on a “Grand Finale” cake. I’m sure y’all can’t wait for that photo. I promise I’ll post it, no matter how pathetic it is. I’ll also post my daughter’s so you’ll be able to see what it’s supposed to look like.

My book signing that benefited Best Buddies was such a success, I’m doing another benefit signing — even did a little TV interview about it! Tomorrow I’m having a signing at a great little boutique shop in Noblesville called The Linden Tree. The shop owner and I are donating a percentage of my book sales as well as store merchandise sales to the Noblesville Education Foundation. With budget cutbacks, the teachers can use all of the help we can give them!

Today, the sun is shining — such a wonderful sight after the long dismal winter we’ve experienced. I’m headed out to prune my knock-out roses and pick up what will probably be a truckload of sticks and limbs that the winter battered off our trees. I’d better get to it, winter is due back in town by Monday. Sigh.

The good news is I have managed to keep my feet in matching footwear.

Until next time…

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Book Signing, Charity, Food, Karen White, Television, Whistling Past the Graveyard, Writing

Best Buddies Indiana Fundraiser and Book Signing

January 31, 2010 By Susan Crandall 2 Comments

Saturday was a very special day, one I’ll remember for years to come. Many new friends from Best Buddies Indiana joined me to help launch my latest romantic suspense, SLEEP NO MORE.

Best Buddies is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And what a wonderful organization it is!

I was reminded of the value of friendship, a thing many of us take for granted, and how a life without it can be so very desolate. This organization is particularly helpful to high school and college age people with intellectual disabilities, a time in everyone’s life that is made richer by friendships. With this kind of social and emotional support, many people with disabilities develop the necessary social skills to better able to integrate into the flow of life and the workforce.

We had a great party at Noblesville, IN Barnes & Noble, gave away some goodies, raised some money for Best Buddies and more importantly raised people’s awareness of this great organization. You see, up until recently, I didn’t even know about Best Buddies Indiana. But in writing SLEEP NO MORE I created one of my all-time favorite characters, Maggie, a young woman with Mosaic Down Syndrome. During my research, I learned much, gained a better insight, and discovered Best Buddies.

I have a couple of “small world” stories, three actually. First there was the book club I visited in early January (on a horrible, frigid day, but these ladies were hearty souls who ventured out anyway). I mentioned my upcoming signing and the tie-in with Best Buddies. Lo, and behold, one of the women there was on the parents’ advisory board and has a son who participates in Best Buddies. Now M.J. and her son Jeff are among my newfound friends. I’m going to get a photo up on my website of Jeff at the signing.

Susan Crandall with Kim Harvey and Katie Cortelyou of Best Buddies Indiana

Susan Crandall (center) with Kim Harvey (left) and Katie Cortelyou (right) of Best Buddies Indiana

Small world story number 2. The woman on the right of this photo is Kim, she works for Best Buddies Indiana and was there the whole day. As Kim and I were chatting, we were discussing Noblesville, as I grew up here and live here, and discovered that her father was my band director when I was in junior high!

Small world story number 3. Katie, on the right in this photo, also works for Best Buddies. One of my friends from waaaay back, a friend of my older brother in fact, was at the signing, saw her and said, “Hey, she took care of me while I was in the hospital a while back.” He and Katie had a conversation, and yes indeed, Katie was a nurses aid and took care of him. (And we have lots of hospitals in this area!)

How about that for one short afternoon?

Katie also shared a story with me that I will never, never forget. She said that while she was in high school, she did not have a person who she could call “friend.” For four years, she ate lunch alone and walked the halls alone. Katie is now working to make sure others with disabilities such as hers don’t have to go through their days alone. It seems such a small thing, having a friend. But you don’t realize, until you walk those halls alone day after day, what a huge difference it can make in your life.

Best Buddies and the people I’ve met through them have enriched my own life. And I’m thinking Maggie won’t be my last character with an intellectual disability.

If you’d like to know more about Best Buddies, visit www.bestbuddies.org

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