Author: Angel Ackerman
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Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator
And then I came home to find the check for my grant from the Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program. I will not be keeping a single dime from this money as it is earmarked for advertising. My grant proposal suggested using half for Amazon ads to provide more national exposure for our…
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Summary of the Author Expo with the Liars Club
Saturday turned out to be a truly mood-boosting day, thanks to the Pocono Liars Club presenting their Author Expo. We heard and met a bunch of interesting authors that ran the gamut from Kayla Erin Woods explaining foster care to children (see her book here) to Gabrielle Ferrara counting dead squirrels (check that out here or find her, as…
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On the radio…
And at the end of the month, The Writers’ Den radio program on NH Talk Radio (WKXL FM), will air an episode June 29 at 11 a.m. where Jacobs discusses his novel. On June 21, at WDVR 89.7 fm in the broadcast coverage area or WDVRfm.org online, Angel Ackerman hosts a special tribute to Steve’s Café, the working man’s tavern featured…
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A rant on finding a writing craft book…
I have four physical writing craft books on my desk and a to-be-read pile of 10-15 books in every room of my house. And this month, I am reading my unsolicited submission pile while overseeing a ridiculous amount of summer releases from my brand. (But as I see the first…
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When the satire feels real
We are all familiar with that old cliché about life imitating art. The recent political and legal controversy about the president’s deployment of the National Guard in California eerily echoes the constitutional crisis depicted in my novel, Splintered River. In the novel, the ambiguities in the Constitution about command of…
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A rainy day at Doylestown Bookshop
Yesterday’s deluge did impact the amount of foot traffic on the sidewalk in Doylestown, Pa., where Larry Sceurman was part of a Local Authors Day at the Doylestown Bookshop. Doylestown is one of those places I visited a long time ago (the Volkssport walk I mentioned in the last newsletter— that was my first introduction to the town) and always meant…
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Amazon ad progress
I attended a free webinar with Geoff Affleck (of Amazon Ads Management) and learned some of his strategy and compared it to that of Bryan Cohen, whose mini-course I paid for about a month ago. In general, Geoff spends more money than Bryan. So this, and the differences in technique, give me more to…
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