Category: from the publisher
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For the love of airplanes and travel… part 2
Early aviation and romance Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote the wonderful illustrated story, The Little Prince, but is also one of the 20th Century’s most daring aviators. He disappeared in flight during World War II. He wrote and he flew, and the two arts fed each other. Before his renowned novella, he…
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Bookstore Review: A visit to C. Simpson
I have mixed feelings about used book shops. They are often dusty and cause issues with my allergies. They are sometimes disorganized or have vague pricing policies. So, I don’t often stop at random used book shops. But I have seen C. Simpson Used Books in Gilbert, Pa., on Route…
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Angel Ackerman experiments with ChatGPT
ChatGPT came up in conversation several times last week and I expressed my usual concerns that (1) people need to fact check ChatGPT because it relies on generic scanning of the Internet and we all know how accurate the Internet-at-large is, and (2) we don’t know how/where ChatGPT sources its…
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Travels near and far
The RV book— Motorhome Gypsies: Practical RV Living Advice & Real World Adventures— will release in a little more than a week. This book is a must-read if you ever contemplated RV or van life. It’s a fun read for the travel writing to follow Rachel Thompson and Lisa Cross in their journey around the country…
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Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator
And then I came home to find the check for my grant from the Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program. I will not be keeping a single dime from this money as it is earmarked for advertising. My grant proposal suggested using half for Amazon ads to provide more national exposure for our…
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A rainy day at Doylestown Bookshop
Yesterday’s deluge did impact the amount of foot traffic on the sidewalk in Doylestown, Pa., where Larry Sceurman was part of a Local Authors Day at the Doylestown Bookshop. Doylestown is one of those places I visited a long time ago (the Volkssport walk I mentioned in the last newsletter— that was my first introduction to the town) and always meant…
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A visit to Firefly in Kutztown
Yesterday, my daughter and I made the 45-minute drive to Kutztown, Pa. (which took an hour because of a fatal accident) to meet a writer friend for a coffee and a visit to Firefly Bookstore. Now, I know Firefly is a local favorite, even for those of us in the…
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