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  <name><![CDATA[Michael Cogdill]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America.  His cache of awards includes 24 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:  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 newsmakers 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, will launch in 2010, with a global publicity blast.  I'm currently at work on two self-improvement pieces of non-fiction:  God's Contact Lens and Raise The Haze, Lifting the Fog From Your Legacy.  Another piece of fiction is in the kettle, too:  The Belles of Honeysuckle Road.  As a southern man, I love to write about southern women.  My New Jersey-born wife, Jill, embraces the idea.  And me!  The proof is in She-Rain:

http://she-rain.blogspot.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.  I married Jill Kremer in 1985 -- the best decision of my life -- and together we've founded a company, Cracker the Crab LLC, publishing children's literature and offering a product line with emphasis on raising self-esteem in the young.  I currently anchor the 6:00 and 11:00 news weeknights on WYFF News 4, NBC in the western Carolinas and Georgia.
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  <title><![CDATA[She-Rain]]></title>
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  <published>2010</published>  
  
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