Author: Angel Ackerman
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Review: Janet Evanovich How I Write
I finished Janet Evanovich’s How I Write, and I expected it to disappoint. Evanovich reports in the book that it takes laborious effort to make her Stephanie Plum novels read so simply. So, like the easy tone of her fiction, her writing craft book is also conversational. The book released…
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A note on Amazon categories
If you’d like a chuckle at Amazon’s inefficiencies in AI, I learned earlier that M.Christian’s and Ralph Greco Jr.’s new book, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know hit #17 in the Amazon parenting reference category. When I entered the metadata for this title, I focused on relationships, dating and intimacy— there…
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A poem every hour?
From the Behind Our Eyes email list for disabled writers, I learned of the 2025 Poetry Marathon in May. This unique event encourages participants to write a poem every hour for 24 hours. (I’m not sure how they handle sleep.) Registration begins April 22. We’re excited to announce the dates for the 2025 Poetry Marathon! This…
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On preparing your book for publication
As a publisher, I often interact with people that have self-published a book or sometimes I also sometimes hear from authors that they have already published their book while I had it on my “to be read” pile. As president of the writers group, I interact with people that made…
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Find me on the radio
This week, I appeared on radio station WVIA’s Art Scene promoting the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group conference The Write Stuff in March. Host Erika Funke interviewed me as the current president of the group and Donna Brennan, our conference chair. For more information on the GLVWG Write Stuff conference, click here. To learn more about WVIA, click here. To scroll through their daily ArtSCENE broadcasts, click here.
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Meanwhile at Mary Meuser Library
While I offer workshops at the Easton Area Public Library, I serve on the board of trustees for my local public library, the Mary Meuser Memorial Library in quaint Wilson Borough, Pa., which shares a zip code with neighboring Easton. I first joined the library board circa 2008 when my now-college-aged child…
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More poetry, more history
Recently, in my Substack newsletter, I mentioned how my grandfather served on the Queen Mary during World War II and how this led to his meeting and marrying my grandmother. I mentioned this because I was reading Jane Friedman’s hot sheet and saw she would be presenting at a writing…
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Writing Craft Books at Easton Library
I reached out to my friends at Easton Area Public Library, where I have free monthly writers workshops on the second Thursday of the month*, asking about what writing craft books they have in their collection. (It looks like most of them are cataloged around 808 if you plan on browsing the…
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