About Prissy Elrod

PRISSY ELROD

Prissy Elrod is a professional speaker, artist, humorist, and the published author of Far Outside the Ordinary and Chasing Ordinary. She was born and raised in Lake City, Florida, and now lives in Tallahassee with her husband. She earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Florida State University.

Since her books were released, they have been profiled in multiple Florida and Georgia newspapers. Bloggers from California to New York have reviewed and shared her book with their readers, and Prissy has personally spoken or Skyped with over one hundred book clubs throughout the country.

She has been among the chosen authors for several writers' forums in Florida: Contemporary Women Authors of the South and Writers in the Round, part of a philanthropic education organization for women. In addition, she has been the keynote speaker to SunTrust, Merrill Lynch, the Florida Transportation Builders Association, Altrusa, and Friends of the Library and was the MC for Reader Meet Writer in Georgia.

She has been interviewed and broadcast on multiple syndicated radio programs throughout the country, featured on the cover of Tallahassee Woman magazine, spotlighted in Writer's Digest magazine, and featured in the national Pi Beta Phi Arrow magazine, and her butterfly cover was featured in the esteemed Print graphic design magazine after winning one of the top 350 best designs in the United States in 2014.

Prissy was raised in Lake City ... a charming little town nestled in northern Florida. She has a small studio in her home, dividing her time between painting and writing. The painting came first, her canvases filled with paintings of children, landscapes, Florida, water, barns, and pets. Writing came a few years later. She awoke one morning with a yearning, a feeling surfaced from deep within. She had a story to tell. Her writing journey began that very day.

Prissy never thought of herself as a writer, most certainly never an author. Like many things in her life, writing evolved during the process of living. It would take four years before she finished her first book, having read, then arduously studied over forty-eight books on the craft of writing. She may never know where the urge to write came from, or really why. She is simply grateful it did.