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 the juvenile fiction series: The Adventures of the Poodle Posse.

Yes, the writer who once went on some enviable assignments in resorts, interviewing and tasting the handiwork of celebrity chefs, 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 ---read an excerpt, download an activity, view the schedule of events, find out more about my budget friendly school visit program.

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.