Category: from the publisher
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A New Book Venue in Town
When I’m not at my desk, and I’m not in a bookstore, I spend the bulk of my professional time in one of two places. You might find me at the Panera at the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa, sipping iced coffee and often writing for hours with…
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Archive of Adolescence closes
The final volume of McKenna Graf’s Archive of Adolescence series, What’s Left?, officially releases June 13. McKenna graduated from Lafayette College last week and has enrolled in a master’s program at Harvard University. She came to me as a college sophomore and, in a meeting in downtown Easton’s Three Birds Coffee, pitched the idea of a four-book series that covered her…
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The Words Add Up
This weekend, I needed to finish an essay I planned to submit to the fourth Behind Our Eyes literary anthology. The anthology features disabled writers from the writers group of the same name. As a member, I was welcomed to submit. I attended a meeting where the editors discussed what they were…
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I hired a mime
On a whim last week, I hired a mime. Meet Polly the Pantomime Person. (Pictures borrowed, respectfully from her Instagram.) Hopefully, as I learn more about Polly I can share that information with you. But I commissioned Polly to do some publicity material for me, some skits, some stills, all in…
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Review: The Business of Being a Writer
If you have any serious interest in writing, Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer, now its second edition will prove to be the best investment you can make in your own experience. I don’t care if you’re a hobbyist or a career writer, if you write to gain fame or to make money, if you have…
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Spring Chicken
It’s finally warm— between 75 and 82 during the day and in the fifties at night. I am in my happy place. I ordered some Muppet-like keychains to bring joy into the universe and my neighbor brought me a belated birthday gift that included a spring chicken in vibrant yellow.…
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The Fashion in Fashion and Fiends
Circa 1990. Somehow, I stumble upon Elsa Klensch on CNN and get a subscription to Vogue. Read Elsa’s obituary here on CNN. Haute couture becomes an obsession of mine. Why? I have no clue. I saw beauty, and creativity, and France. I was in my early stages of learning French, thinking French would be something my…
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It started with vampires
I can tell you the exact moment in time when I became obsessed with vampires. It was summer-ish time, circa 1990, and I discovered a campy Canadian television show, Dracula: The Series. The actor who played Max went on with his entertainment career to be a part of something you might have heard of Heated…
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Hometown Heroes
For the last few months, I’ve been working on a project with the Historical Society in Stewartsville, N.J., to transfer their hometown hero banner project into a commemorative book. The historical society held a launch party and book signing at their American Legion post on Saturday. Art director Gayle Hendricks…
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