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Michael Cogdill

Goodreads author profile

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http://www.goodreads.com/MichaelofShe-Rain

born

June 11, 1961 in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

gender

male

website

http://she-rain.blogspot.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Children's Books

influences

F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Melvyn Bragg,...more

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October 2009

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Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His cache of awards includes 27 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 includ...more Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His cache of awards includes 27 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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Michael Cogdill's Blog

The Undertaker Who Gave Me My Groove Back

People often ask about my embarrassing moments. Here’s one, far removed from live television. It proves the power of blood humor to light our deeply human dark.

Emceeing an event, before a crowd flirting with a thousand, I had to introduce a funeral director I didn’t know. I’d never laid eyes on him. His last name gave off some uncertainty, so I joked, “If I screw up this undertaker’s name, he’s... read more »

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She-Rain: A Story of Hope

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She-Rain (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated Oct 20, 2009 06:12pm

Description: ...straight from the back cover of She-Rain, an allegorical novel launching in early 2010. Then, see some early reviews below this: In the early 20th Century, a pair of North Carolina mountain children sow the seed of a love that becomes their only solace in the hard yet beautiful world they know. They grow it from steep ground of poverty, ignorance, and violence. A landscape so brutal it can kill hope long before claiming life. Bloodshed years later finally sends Frank Locke on the run, deep into wilderness, abandoning his extraordinary love, Mary Lizbeth. When a whitewater river washes this desperate soul into the hands of Sophia, he discovers a luminous woman steeped in mystery, trapped in a tragically brilliant life. Far ahead of her time. Secreted from the world. As she awakens Frank’s mind, they rise to meet a love that binds three people for a lifetime. This love triangle forms a beauty no one sees coming. From the wilds of Appalachia, crossing nearly a century, it runs deep into a lush American fortune, and lives in letters of adoration and hope of the least expected. In a rhapsody of Southern voices, mingling hilarity and sorrow, She-Rain speaks of lives soaring beyond heartbreak, fundamentalism, and self-destruction. Through the most graceful longing, two women in love with one man ultimately prove the power of human hearts to answer high callings. They show us all how to heal -- and thrive -- to the very end.

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Michael Cogdill is now friends with Yeannid
May 26, 2012 07:10am
Michael Cogdill made a comment on An Open Letter to my 16 Year Old Self: "Pat wrote: "Michael, I just recently did an exercise myself similar to this. I took that fragile little girl and held her close and told her that thing...more "
May 17, 2012 12:46pm
Michael Cogdill made a comment on Mary's review of She-Rain: A Story of Hope "Thank you, my dear friend!! Your praise is a great gift. Tell everyone you know, and come see us soon at WYFF4!! Wellness and peace, m "
Nov 16, 2011 08:55pm · see review
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Michael Cogdill made a comment on An Open Letter To Rick Bragg: "Pat, my heavens, thank you!! I stand so humbled by and grateful for your kindness here, I can hardly scratch up a word that seems fit for the thanks I...more "
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Michael Cogdill made a comment in the group Amazon Kindle — What We're Reading on Our Kindles ... topic "Rosemary, thank you. I'll count it a high honor to have you in the world of She-Rain! Please, let me know how you like The Help. Here's to the Southern...more "
Jan 13, 2011 12:38pm
Michael Cogdill made a comment on Jessica's review of Freedom "Amy, you wisely chose a pair of magic words in your post there -- "hype machine." Freedom and Franzen have formed part of the language of big publishi...more "
Jan 02, 2011 09:40am · see review
Michael Cogdill gave to: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson	My rating:
Just shy of the half-way mark, I keep marveling at Bryson's talent for making the mundane so completely magnetic. The man could write a funny and engaging book about asphalt. To read this is to revisit some history you know while enriching your mind...more
Dec 28, 2010 06:35pm · see review
Michael Cogdill gave to: Truman by David McCullough read in December, 2010	My rating:
Grand in scope, brilliant of detail, as readable as the finest Hemingway, this stands among the finest works of non-fiction I've ever held. I'm kicking myself for not reading it years ago. This is no mere history of an astoundingly complex and deeply...more
Dec 28, 2010 06:28pm · see review

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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,
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