What is your name and where do you live?
I’m Teddy Tedaloo, and
I’m a famous author and celebrity bear! Right now I live in the Pacific Northwest.
But I’ve lived all over the place—California, Florida, Washington, the
mountains of north Georgia, and for a long time in England.
Tell us about how you
got started blogging/writing.
My mama’s an author
and we thought we should write some books together, so we finally did. We had
an idea to do a cozy mystery series about a bear character named Thelonious T.
Bear, but it wasn’t until we spent time in Norfolk England that we came up with
how to go forward. So far I’ve written two books: Rotten Peaches (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles) and Normal for Norfolk (The Thelonious T. Bear
Chronicles). Thelonious is a photojournalist bear from England. He drives a
Mini Cooper and always gets in trouble even though he doesn’t do anything wrong.
I’ve already got the third book planned. I just need to wait until Mama is done
with some books for her new horror series. Then we can get cracking with the
third Thelonious T. Bear book!
What other pursuits do
you have?
Does drinking pints count
as a pursuit?
I have a newspaper The Teddy Tedaloo Times. It has lots of
news about animals and us bears, with plenty of rescue stuff because I’m an
animal advocate. I think animals are way more important than people so I try to
help them any way I can! I also do cross-posting in social media and administer
the Charlie to the Rescue Crossposts group on Facebook. Me and Mama helped that
group get started. It now has more than 15,000 members.
I also have the Teddy
Tedaloo Store at my website. I have a real cool beans 2017 calendar and some
coasters for sale. I’d like to expand with more products in the future and
offer a calendar every year. A portion of everything I sell goes to National
Mill Dog Rescue, which is an excellent rescue organization in the United States.
What is your human
like?
Well, I better be real
careful what I say about Mama in case she reads this. Mama’s a very busy author
like me. Her name is Mitzi Szereto. Of course I’m way more famous and popular
then she is even though she’s written more books than me. I always have to supervise
her or she wouldn’t even know what day it is. She drives me around to see and do
stuff and we travel when we can. Okay, so her cooking isn’t too good, but she
loves me!
What is your favorite
food and favorite thing to do?
I like all kinds of
food, but we stopped eating meat because it’s not nice to eat animals. I really
like fish, and salt and vinegar crisps, and aged cheddar cheese. And ice cream.
And chocolate. My favorite thing to do is go to brew pubs for a pint of craft
ale. We have some real good ones in the Pacific Northwest. It’s my goal to visit
them all!
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