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Gary D. Robson

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  • Who Pooped BooksA fun series of children’s books about animal scat & tracks.
    • Acadia National Park
    • Big Bend National Park
    • Black Hills
    • Central Park (New York City)
    • Cascade Mountains
    • Colorado Plateau
    • Death Valley National Park
    • Glacier National Park
    • Grand Canyon National Park
    • Grand Teton National Park
    • Northwoods
    • Olympic National Park
    • Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
    • Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Sequioa & Kings Canyon
    • Redwoods State & National Parks
    • Shenandoah National Park
    • Sonoran Desert
    • Yosemite National Park
    • Yellowstone National Park
  • Nonfiction BooksLocal history, closed captioning, book signings, and much more.
    • Growing Up on Memory Lane
    • Gary’s Guide to Successful Book Signings
    • The Darkest Hour
    • The Very Best of the Red Lodge Local Rag
    • A Tea Journey: Your Personal Tea Cupping Journal
    • The Closed Captioning Handbook
    • Alternative Realtime Careers
    • Inside Captioning
    • The Court Reporter’s Guide to Cyberspace
  • Fiction BooksMyths & Legends and my upcoming fantasy series
    • Myths & Legends of Tea, Vol 1
  • Other WorkCaptioning, freelance writing, nonprofit consulting, and more.
    • Book Signing TipsThe most-read posts on my blog. They inspired my book for authors
    • Freelance WritingMagazine & newspaper articles and more.
    • Closed CaptioningMy captioning talks, articles, and books.
      • Captioning Overview
      • The Closed Captioning Handbook
      • TEDx Caption Talk
      • Caption Engineering
      • Captioning Articles
    • TeaTea books and blog
      • Tea With Gary blog
      • Tea Books
    • NonprofitGrant writing, branding, and communications.
      • Nonprofit Consulting
      • Nonprofit Portfolio
      • VoiceLive and studio voice work & demo reels.
        • Voice Acting Overview
        • Podcasting
        • Video Samples
        • Audio Samples
  • AboutFAQs, relevant links, and more about me.
    • About Me
    • FAQ
    • Awards & Achievements
    • Goodreads author page
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    • Bookshop.org author page
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Author: Gary D. Robson

Gary Robson: Author, nonprofit communications consultant, and tea shop owner. I've written books and articles on many different subjects, but everyone knows me for my "Who Pooped in the Park?" books.
Books

Censorship Talk at the Forum for Provocative Issues

8 Apr 20131 Feb 2026
Book burning in Nazi Germany. Click on image for description at "The History Place." The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution seems very straightforward when it says "Congress shall make…
Books

BookLamp and the Book Genome Project

5 Apr 20131 Feb 2023
I was perusing BookRiot yesterday and came across a post entitled "12 Alternatives to Goodreads." This is a hot topic since the announcement that Amazon is acquiring Goodreads, and I…
Books

Amazon buying Goodreads? Can’t we have anything nice?

29 Mar 20131 Feb 2023
The word is out. The biggest monopoly in the history of the book business is buying the biggest independent book review website. Most of what I'm reading about Amazon's pending…
Books…

Myths & Legends of Tea

25 Mar 201331 Jan 2026
This is an early working concept for the book cover. The photo in the post header is what I ended up using for the final cover. Most writers don't like…
Books

A few myths about banned books

11 Feb 20135 May 2023
This image was borrowed from Melville House, where it illustrates an article referenced later in this blog post. I just listened to an episode of the "Stuff You Should Know"…
Articles…

The Wrong Way to Promote Your Book

26 Jan 201330 Jan 2023
I originally wrote this article for Writer's Weekly back in 2003. It can be seen in its original form on their website. I've placed it here on my blog because…
Education…

Oh, boy! My book is a textbook! That’s good news, right?

14 Jan 20131 Feb 2026
When I wrote about this in 2011, I talked about rights reversion and what that means in an age of ebooks. Today, I'm having more of an issue with the…
Writing

A Square credit card update

27 Nov 201219 Aug 2013
Last April, I wrote about credit cards from an author/bookseller perspective. Since then, we've switched our credit card processing from a major bank to Square running on iPads, and invalidated…
Writing

And the next Who Pooped book is…

14 Sep 201219 Aug 2013
We have a contract for my 18th book in the Who Pooped in the Park? series! This one will be titled Who Pooped in the Cascades?, and will cover the…

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