Author Archives: Keena

Animals, WILD LIFE

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If you look up WILD LIFE on any of the book-buying sites today, you may notice something different: a subtitle! The book’s full title is now Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs. It took us (me, … Continue reading

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Friends, if you like epic fantasy do yourself a favor and pick up The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Yes, it’s 800 pages long but thank goodness because it sucks you into this incredible world you don’t … Continue reading

Recommendation, Uncategorized

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I’m currently writing a book about the adventures of a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Told from the perspective of monkey protagonists, this work of fiction is based on actual events observed during my time living … Continue reading

WIP

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My wonderful wife has created some pictures to showcase quotes from the book. Here’s your first peek! What do you think?

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Pre-order Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Keena’s funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, … Continue reading

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Meet Morgan: The first baboon I ever named and always a favorite. I named him after my first grade teacher, and his little sister was named after one of the bravest mice of literature, Mariel of Redwall. #MonkeyMonday #Botswana #Okavango … Continue reading

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Please pre-order now to help make sure that the book is a success. About the book WILD LIFE is a memoir by Keena Roberts, who split her adolescence between her parents’ primate research camp in Botswana and a fancy private … Continue reading

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This week I’m heading to Portland, Oregon for the Association of Writers and Writing Professionals Conference (called “AWP”). It’s the biggest book fair in North America, and given how difficult it was to book a hotel room I should have … Continue reading

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