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Michael Sean Comerford
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: General Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Other, Memoir
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture
On October 13, 2022, I'm publishing 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕: 𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝟔𝟔 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝑶𝑽𝑰𝑫 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.
I'm currently the author of #1 Amazon Bestseller 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒁: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 & 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑠-- 𝐻𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎℎ𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑜.
Comerford is an award-winning former international journalist who worked in Chicago, New York, Budapest, and Moscow.
His byline has appeared in the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal, Prague Post, Huffington Post, Moscow Times and the L.A. Review of Books.
He holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He’s also attended Marquette University; University of College Cork, Ireland; The Poynter Institute; and was a journalism fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He’s bicycled cross country 4 times in the United States, rode freight trains, and drove cattle out West. He hitchhiked across America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
He was a heavyweight boxing champion in Ireland before touring almost 100 countries He swam the headwaters of the Nile, fought off a hippo attack, and danced a jig in the Amazon rainforest holding a jug of Chicha in the air.
For kick-ass videos see Michael Sean Comerford on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7mQ-VIP2TYoZCGctdPCkew or his blog site at www.EyesLikeCarnivals.com.
He’s a full-time writer currently residing in the Los Angeles area to be near his daughter, Grace Comerford. She is the author of four books, the latest Children's book is about climate change and was sponsored by the Smithsonian.
Michael Sean Comerford's books
American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking CA to NY, AK to Mexico
The real traveling carnival is in the pathos of carnival lives behind the scenes.
American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You’ll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same way again!
Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals.
He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road.
It's a new classic American road story as he hitchhikes to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show.
He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas.
He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny. He exposes the truths about immigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds.
Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road.