Several Small Newses and one BIG News...

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Authors of Nonfiction Books

Jun 25, 2026

📅June Meeting TODAY📅

Authors’ Meeting

June 25 · 6:00 – 7:00pm MST (Check your local time!)

Calendar Event

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🦴Kristin’s Updates🦴

I have several!

Biggest one at the end…

🐱 Enrich your cat’s life and read my article about cat-training!

Check your local markets for this magazine…

Cover image for Inside Your Cat's Mind: Enriching Your Cat's Life

📚Or you can buy it here,
📚or get it from your local library via Overdrive here!

I have an article in it about how training your cat to do tricks is good for them! It starts with an anecdote about training My Beloved Bijou, who I dedicated my book to.

Here are the pictures they didn’t use, showing my family’s cat, Thunder, and of course, Bijou as the banner image.

An orange and black cat with long legs jumping through arms like a hoop. — Thunder jumping through my arms on command

My Beloved Bijou is doing a high-five on command, because she is a genius.

🐂 I’m going to Missouri for a photo workshop!

Just a little success record: I got a scholarship to attend the Missouri Photo Workshop! It’s north of Kansas City, MS at Northwest Missouri State University Agricultural Learning Center.

For that, I’m hoping to work on my photo book more. It’s September 20-27, and I’ll add a few days for driving on either end, and maybe I’ll stop by Kansas again to see the Flint Hills/ Tallgrass Prairie, where I did a residency.

An agricultural learning center! I bet I can find some more piles of farm animal bones or something.

Me on a pile of dead cattle, pigs, and sheep.

⛰️I’m going to be a fellow at the next Rural Creator Fellowship!

I’m excited to do another fellowship, this time for rural news creators! This one is perfect for me as a rural creator who does both video content and journalism.

My life is so patchwork, but I love having finite projects like this. I learn so many different things!

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…and the big news?

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🎉”Carcass:
On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies”
is Available for Pre-Order!🎉

That’s right! With no warning, I got an email alerting me that something with my name had been published somewhere on the internet.

ADVICE: Put on a Google email alert for your name!

Turned out it was this page on Penguin Random House featuring Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies. And on that page were links to pre-orders!

There is one more deadline for me, to slide any last-minute edits under the wire for the last time, on July 15. But maybe they were confident adding this page for pre-orders because even if I died right now, what I have turned in is a final draft. I don’t know, I haven’t been informed.

Anyway!

Here are some places you can pre-order already!

📕Hudson Booksellers