The Well Bred Book
If you love dogs, a good laugh and some twists and turns, you’re going to love
THE ADVENTURES OF THE POODLE POSSE
Canine Kicks for Young Readers
(suggested for grades 2-4, as a read-aloud for younger children and for dog lovers of all ages)
NOW IN REVIEW by dozens of elementary students, teachers & editors--Book #3, a Halloween tale & activity book; due out fall, 2010. More info:
welcome to my world
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of books helps support animal rescue & welfare associations in Pennsylvania & elsewhere, including the Bucks County SPCA, Animal Lifeline, Brookline Labrador Retriever Rescue, Best Friends.
The Well Bred Book has participated in the annual TODAY SHOW toy drive and the Bucks County Children & Youth Social Services Agency holiday giving program
What does a lifestyle magazine writer do when she observes her poodles stealing bones? Picking tomatoes? Sending e-mails? Falling into hot tubs?
You guessed it---I picked up my pen and began to write about it in my new juvenile fiction series: The Adventures of the Poodle Posse.
Yes, the writer who once went on some enviable assignments and interviewed international figures now spends her days writing and talking about poodles with young readers.
There is always a new adventure when living with intelligent ‘furballs’, and through it all, lessons to be learned--about life, love and what family and friendship are all about.
I invite you to navigate through the site to read an excerpt, download an activity, view the schedule of events, read about my budget friendly school visit program and more.
Want to talk further? Drop me an email at chrysasmith@verizon.net
Happy Tales,
Chrysa Smith
Author/Publisher
The Adventures of the Poodle Posse
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About The Well Bred Book
The Publishing Industry has changed dramatically. Corporate mergers, acquisitions, downsizing and a squeeze for profits have caused shifts in product selection and quantity, talent levels and author income (for newer talent) to decrease rapidly---making it increasingly more difficult for those who have chosen writing as their career path.
Luckily, technology has also changed quickly, allowing books to be published in new ways that forgo the lengthy (months, years, decades) process that authorship once required, and allowing authors to make a better living on their work. And that is how The Well Bred Book was born.
Before writing these tales, I was published in print for two decades. I knew I could write. But I also knew that it takes a great deal of time, effort and help to produce a quality product on your own---one that I was lucky enough to have experience with, thanks to my corporate publishing, communications and PR background, courses in children’s writing, an illustrator with a background in children’s books plus a lot of help from educators, librarians, bookstore folks and young readers.