Author: Angel Ackerman
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Phillipsburg Comic Con
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Phillipsburg Comic Con with my children’s book illustrator Joseph Swarctz promoting the Echo City Capers books. Joe trained at the Joe Kubert School in Dover, N.J., which if you are a fan of the comic book scene, you probably recognize as the place where comic book illustrators are born. To me,…
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A night at the movies
Last night Eva Parry and I attended the public screening of Lafayette College‘s DOC 250, a class on documentary filmmaking that is part of the college’s Film and Media Studies program. The course has one of the longest descriptions in the FAMS catalog: DOC 250/Documentary Storymaking Bridge places students’ original documentary projects at…
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The Mad Lib reality of time (and other tidbits)
I am due to write my next weekly newsletter on Substack and like many creatives, I have a variety of commitments in the air that I think I have control of but then I realize that a [insert whatever amount of time here] has passed and [something] is not on…
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Visits to Northampton Community College
As our local community college finishes up its spring semester, professors there invited me to participate in two different areas. I spoke to Laurel Wenson‘s self-publishing class and I served as an evaluator/employer at the Communication Design Portfolio Review, which is a capstone experience for students completing any of the…
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Post 3/3 Events to Consider Pocono Writers Conference
Among other meetings and commitments, I have attended three local book-related events in the last ten days and today, I will provide a round-up of the advice I heard. Anyone can apply this advice to their business, and perhaps more importantly, in this uber-connected age, anyone can become a product.…
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Post 2/3 Events to Consider Writing Reading & Retailing
Among other meetings and commitments, I have attended three local book-related events in the last ten days and today, I will provide a round-up of the advice I heard. Anyone can apply this advice to their business, and perhaps more importantly, in this uber-connected age, anyone can become a product.…
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Post 1/3: Events to consider Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group The Write Stuff
Among other meetings and commitments, I have attended three local book-related events in the last ten days and today, I will provide a round-up of the advice I heard. Anyone can apply this advice to their business, and perhaps more importantly, in this uber-connected age, anyone can become a product.…
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