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Michael Cogdill

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in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

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Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His cache of awards includes 32 Emmys and the National Edward R. Murrow for a broad range of achievement, from live reporting to long-form storytelling. His work proves the power a message can hold when it reaches the human heart. Michael’s television credits as a writer/performer include CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and The Today Show. His interview credits are about as varied as you can get: President Barack Obama, The Reverend Billy Graham, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Abby Hoffman, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Howard K. Smith, James Brown, and countless eminent members of Congress along with other key news makers around the country. Hi Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His cache of awards includes 32 Emmys and the National Edward R. Murrow for a broad range of achievement, from live reporting to long-form storytelling. His work proves the power a message can hold when it reaches the human heart. Michael’s television credits as a writer/performer include CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and The Today Show. His interview credits are about as varied as you can get: President Barack Obama, The Reverend Billy Graham, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Abby Hoffman, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Howard K. Smith, James Brown, and countless eminent members of Congress along with other key news makers around the country. His coverage credits include Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States and major figures in entertainment.

Okay, that's the publicist-driven carrying on about television, and I hope we can be friends anyway, all you lovers of great books. I'm a writer working across genres that include children’s literature, the Southern novel, and self-improvement non-fiction. My latest completed work, a novel entitled She-Rain, is currently in development as a feature film by a company I co-founded. My partners and I believe the world of book to film ought to change, radically, and we're bringing that change. Another piece of fiction is in my kettle, too: The Sinners of Honeysuckle Road. As a southern man, I love to write about southern women. I was raised by strong, graceful women. The proof is in She-Rain.

Oh, of course I'm a blogger, too. If you dare:

http://michaelcogdill.wordpress.com/

I was born a fairly poor and relatively redneck child in Asheville, North Carolina, June 11, 1961 -- the son of a truck driver and a mill worker. I'm extremely proud of my working-people roots, drawing on their deep wisdom and life lessons in my reporting, writing and public speaking. I'm also, thanks to my parents' devotion to higher education, a cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in communications, emphasis on the liberal arts.

My news children’s book Where Did Joe Go launches in early 2023. Illustrations by former child prodigy, George Pocheptsov.

I used to anchor the 6:00 and 11:00 news weeknights on WYFF News 4, NBC in the western Carolinas and Georgia. Having left that very rewarding television career, I’m now founder and CEO of HeartStrong Media with my business partner, Rachel Allgood. Book launches and so much more in store very soon!!
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Get Your Failure Pants On

Believing a grand thing can't be done amounts to worse than failure to do it. It's failure to venture at it. To venture a try. It's believing in failure before giving failure a chance to get its pants on.

Such failure to try is failing at its worst. Buck naked failure. Failure shooting the world a moon, somehow showing its ass and sitting on it the same time.

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“Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.”
― Michael Cogdill

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“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

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message 7: by Danna

Dec 12, 2010 10:16AM

Hi Michael,
My book, "The Extraordinary Workplace: Replacing Fear with Trust and Compasion" is now out. I hope you have a chance to read it. Based on your writing (Raise the Haze & She-Rain) I believe it would resonate with you. Hope "She-Rain" is doing great. It is wonderul book.

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message 6: by Beth

Jan 30, 2010 06:29PM

Hi Michael,
Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!

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message 5: by Michael

Jan 25, 2010 07:27PM

Claire wrote: "Hi Michael, Thanks for adding me! I, also, look forward to reading your book. Hope you are having a great day ^-^ "

Claire, you're a joy!! Welcome. Loved your note in embrace of London and Australia -- both grand parts of the world.

Thank you for spreading the She-Rain word in London! I'm eager to hear your review. Please, request She-Rain from your favorite bookseller in the city. Our distributor reaches London with ease!

Warmest tidings,
m

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message 4: by CF

Jan 24, 2010 05:12AM

Hi Michael, Thanks for adding me! I, also, look forward to reading your book. Hope you are having a great day ^-^

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message 3: by Michael

Jan 21, 2010 06:58PM

Sarah wrote: "I look forward to reading your book."

Sarah, thank you. I'm humbled by the precious time a reader spends in She-Rain (launching March 31) and every other endeavor of writing I undertake, including that of television. Deep gratitude!

I'd love your thoughts on the She-Rain blog, which contains some short passages of the novel alongide postings designed to snap into the mind in just a few moments of reading: http://she-rain.blogspot.com

Warmest peace. Best tidings,
m

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message 2: by SarahC

Jan 21, 2010 06:52PM