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Rob Crisell is an author, actor, teacher, and Shakespearean in Temecula, CA. He teaches poetry and Shakespeare with the Murrieta Valley Union School District as part of its Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) program. He is a Shakespeare lecturer with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He has acted in The Merchant of Venice, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Baskerville, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest (Prospero), Macbeth, Othello (Iago), and others. Over the quarantine, he has acted in Much Ado About Nothing and Merry Wives of Windsor (with Nathan Agin’s “A Working Actor’s Journey production) and King Lear (Quarantine Players). He has written and performed several one-man plays featuring Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Shakespeare in America. He’s the author of Shakespeare’s Book of Wisdom: Advice on Living a Wiser, Happier Life from William Shakespeare & Friends (DePortola Press 2018). His 2016 TED Talk is “How NOT to Hate Shakespeare.” His verse adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra will be produced by Full Circle Players in Riverside, California in October 2020. He is a graduate of Yale University and George Mason University Law School. For details, visit www.robcrisell.com or www.facebook/robcrisellactor/.

The New Shipment of the ZIA Has Arrived!

Good news! The new shipment of my novel for pre-teens and teens–The Zoo of Impossible Animals–is here. This version is more or less the same as the original, minus some pesky typos. We also decided to go with a glossy cover this time rather than the matte finish. I like it. I hope you do, too. It brings out more of the color and details in artist Steve Feldman’s drawings.

The bad news: I’m completely out of old copies, so my short-lived, half-off promotion is done. The purchase price is now $11.75, plus shipping. Still a bargain, I hope!

If you haven’t bought your copy yet and would like to, please go to the Amazon website and purchase one (though it will be the original version for a while). Or if you’d like one of the new versions, you can purchase it here on my website.

If you’ve already read the ZIA and liked it, I’d appreciate it if you review it Amazon. Thank you to all those who have already done so.

Happy reading!

New copies of ZIA are on the way — Remaining copies are HALF OFF!

Good news! Copies of a new, slightly revised version of The Zoo of Impossible Animals were recently shipped from the printer and should arrive this week. Before they do, I’m trying to clear out my remaining 25 or so copies of the original version. So I’m selling the books at HALF OFF ($5.75 plus shipping) until Friday.

If you haven’t ordered a copy and would like one, now is the time!

Zoo of Impossible Animals is almost SOLD OUT (for now)

I want to thank all of you (especially the ladies of Physician Mom’s Group and the good people of St. Jeanne de Lestonnac School) for the continuing success of the Zoo of Impossible Animals. I’ve heard great feedback from parents and kids who are finding the book as enjoyable to read as it was for me to write. I’m down to my last 30 copies, which means that soon copies will only be available through Amazon. But I’ve completed the new edits for the reprint (how did all those typos get in there?) and the book is with the printing house. New copies should be delivered in two weeks.

If you haven’t done so already, I’d love it if you could head over to Amazon and give the book a positive review. It helps get the word out to those who haven’t read it.

Thanks again.

–Rob