Author: Angel Ackerman
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The Caper of the Missing Books
Last week, I ordered two new books: the latest edition of Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer and The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms edited by Kim Adrian. I could have gotten them four dollars cheaper from Amazon, and qualified for free shipping since it’s almost $50 in books, but I opted instead…
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The next round of free ebooks
May 18-22: Free ebook of Any Landing You Walk Away From… written by former flight attendant Dawn O’Harra, who was at Barnes & Noble in Ledgewood, N.J., May 16. Clean historical romance full of airplanes, travel and flight crew adventures. Find that book on Amazon here. May 23-27: Free ebook of Splintered River by E.H.…
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What Roses tell us about Growth
My birthday falls on Wednesday, and my rose bush is celebrating with about 50 roses all blooming at the same time. When we bought this house, Mrs. Beauchspies had three rose bushes, one of which my mom trimmed back to hard and killed our first year here. The second always…
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Less Permanent Black Out
Black Out Poetry has made a couple appearances in my life recently, once in R. Diskin Black’s workshop with the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group in late April and once while reading Urvi Thakker’s honors thesis. (Urvi is a senior at Lafayette College, where McKenna Graf is also a member of the Class of 2026. Congrats to…
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50 books in 5 years freebies
May 10-15: In memory of M.Christian, we are offering his erotic short story collection free as a free ebook. Download In Control and read my favorite (and probably least explicit) erotic short story ever, “Water of Life.” A 50-something falls in love with a water fountain, but it’s really a story of…
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