Author: Angel Ackerman
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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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Cover Reveal for our RV Living Book
About 20 years ago, I walked into a meeting of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group asking if anyone there had an interest in freelance journalism opportunities. I had recently accepted a position as managing editor of a start-up collection of weekly newspapers, The Lehigh Valley News Group. (There’s barely a trace of…
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Larry Sceurman in Doylestown
Larry Sceurman became an educator in his twenties, a storyteller in his fifties, a writer in his sixties, and a published author of nostalgic fiction and children’s stories in his seventies. He grew up in the Kaywin section of Bethlehem, Pa., in the 1950s and 1960s. In his early teens, he…
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Tonight at A Queer Book Fair
Parisian Phoenix will join Magnus Mateo, The Ice House Literary Arts Committee, The Eastern Pennsylvania Trans Equity Project and FlowerMouth Press for a Queer Book Fair, Tuesday June 10 at Bethlehem’s Ice House on Sand Island. The event will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and feature about 10 queer authors. In support of the committee’s efforts to “expand…
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