Author: Angel Ackerman
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Announcing an end-of-year giveaway
I am a member of the Panera Sip Club. Their monthly beverage subscription lessens my guilt when I host client and author meetings at Panera (and I do have a local favorite— it’s the one in the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa.) They sent me an email telling me how many beverages…
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My five-star reads of 2024
This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.
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Moravian Book Shop’s impact on my core memories of college
I have been working on a new resource for my paid subscribers of my Substack newsletter. It’s a page of writing craft books and my reviews of them. The list is available free here, but here you can taste what some of these books mean to me. BOOK: Shaughnessy, Susan.…
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My house is haunted… by the pages of printing past
I got an email last week from someone who borrowed my novelette Not the Quiet French Kid in ebook format from her local library. She took the time to contact me and told me that her grandfather once lived in my house. I purchased my house with my husband twenty years ago…
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Lessons from George Carlin
After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…
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Meanwhile, at the library…
We had our last official writer’s workshop of the year at Easton Area Public Library Main Branch in downtown Easton. Our hosts at the library will be setting up our 2025 events as a recurring writers’ workshop meeting at the library on the second Thursday of the month, starting with our January session on writing…
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New Title Alert!
This week we had our final on-boarding author meeting with Dianna Sinovic and we are trilled to announce her supernatural thriller Scream of a Silent Sun launches officially March 20, 2025. For those truly itching to get their hands on Dianna’s story, print copies should be available prior to March 20 at the Greater…
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Get your Christmas reading ready
M.Christian’s short story collection In Control released in print, ebook and on Kindle Unlimited. Larry Sceurman, over at Larry’s Stories, provides some holiday reflection on his Substack. He’s written some extra editions to celebrate the Christmas season, including one this weekend that will discuss gift-giving. Click here for Larry’s Stories. Speaking of other Substacks, I had…
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How Not to Get Ripped Off as a Writer
Ralph Greco Jr.— author of Writing Dirty Words, our writing craft book and part Ralphie memoir— and I are plotting a new workshop, “How Not to Get Ripped Off as a Writer.” And I feel like readers might need a similar workshop, offering context clues as to whether or not that book…
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