Author: Angel Ackerman
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Parisian Phoenix Events
September October Easton Book Festival: October 12-18 (Events featuring Parisian Phoenix authors) – Monday, October 12: – Saturday, October 17: – Sunday, October 18: Coming in November…
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Seven Years of Recipes
In my late 20s (Gosh that was a long time ago), my two closest friends lived far away— one in Virginia and one in North Carolina. One frequently asked for recipes. The other needed help keeping her grocery shopping within a certain budget. So, I started a blog— on Blogger,…
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Do it with enthusiasm
I often hear people lament that they commit themselves to tasks they don’t enjoy. This saddens me— because life is too short for wasting time, and because success doesn’t count if what it takes to get there makes you miserable. Sometimes we are trapped in jobs we hate, or we…
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Writing Craft Book Review
I first heard of Joe on TikTok. This is not the criteria one normally uses to find writing craft books. But I was curious. Joe has compiled these essays from his newsletter of the same name, which he used to attract and retain freelance clients. The book is beautifully laid…
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Back to Shool
College Professor Ben Goluboff, one of two poets behind Group Portrait, shared with me that he had a new poem published in the McNeese Review called “Native Lands.” Read that here. This Wednesday, I resume teaching at Northampton Community College in their publishing electives. My course, Pathways to Publication, discusses how to get your work published and how to build…
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FREE ON NETGALLEY
For those of you who review ebooks on NetGalley, we are offering Marilyn Jaye Lewis’ The Curse of our Profound Disorder on that platform through September 13. Grab that ebook here.
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Exercises in Short Memoir
July 23 is Nancy Scott’s birthday, and we have a tradition of general silliness around birthdays. This year, we read several chapters from Lita Kurth’s small but mighty memoir book, Writing Memoir in Flashes: Creative Ways to Tell Your True Stories, One Memory at a Time. We recommend Writing Memoir in Flashes to writers who struggle…