Category: from the publisher
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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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He will always be my princess
In late fall 2019, my neighbor discovered that a stray cat in the neighborhood had crawled under her porch and given birth to kittens. My daughter set out to trap them, and we fairly quickly brought home the runt. It was Christmas season and the Judi Dench version of Cats was in…
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The Newsroom
Sometimes I have to escape the written word. Sometimes my eyes hurt, or my brain runs out of juice. Sometimes I don’t even have it left in me to read for pleasure. So I watch some TV. I love documentaries, and anything about fashion, and stand-up comedy. (I made my…
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Parisian Phoenix… the racehorse
I discovered this morning that there is a three-year-old British racehorse, Parisian Phoenix, debuting at Kempton tomorrow. Her sire was Phoenix of Spain and her dam was Meeting in Paris. We certainly wish her luck!
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Networking & Relationships
I periodically submit writing articles to Hippocampus Magazine. I often draft them when I have an idea and send them to the editor who makes a little stock pile in her electronic filing cabinet. Earlier this week, they published another of my essays: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay…
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