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Pet News
Featured Writer of the Week: Simon Teakettle (Barbara Florio Graham)
Thursday, Apr 5, 2012 8:46 am
Simon Teakettle is Canada's Celebrity Cat. Featured on Animal Planet, in books and websites, he shares his office with Barbara Florio Graham. They co-authored an award-winning humor book, Mewsings/Musings, and also collaborated on a calendar featuring photos of Simon Teakettle III (Terzo) taken by Barbara. Terzo's first calendar was published in 2011, and the second in 2012. He's also the July cat in the Capital Cats Calendar, and was featured in The Cat Lover's Book of Days. Simon is the subject of a full chapter in Great Cat Stories, Incredible Tales About Exceptional Cats.
Graham, the author of two other books and the Managing Editor of the new anthology, Prose to Go, Tales From a Private List, works as a publishing consultant, while Simon Teakettle III (known as Terzo), maintains a popular blog on his namesake website, http://www.SimonTeakettle.com.
He also has a Fan Club with 66 cats, 42 dogs, two birds, a parrot, two alpacas, a llama, a horse, a rabbit, two beta fish and four hens, from the U.S., Canada, Norway, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and New Zealand.
Barbara (Bobbi) created the extensive website by herself, and regularly adds new information on writing, publishing, publicity, and, of course, cats. Simon Teakettle I and II were included in her first two books. Five Fast Steps to Better Writing was so popular Graham published a 20th anniversary edition in 2005. It contains a story about Simon Teakettle in the Appendix. Five Fast Steps to Low-Cost Publicity also contains Simon's advice for keeping the media happy.
Graham has also contributed to more than 40 anthologies in five countries. Follow along at www.SimonTeakettle.com.
Comments:
Lorna O. Thunder Bay
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April 7th, 2012 2:56 pm
LOVELY PROFILE, bOBBI - AND A GREAT PHOTO TOO!
Alberte
#2
April 7th, 2012 3:12 pm
Barbara is the ultimate cat lady and Terzo is a very lucky cat!
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