Category: from the publisher
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Greco in Hippocampus
Ralph Greco Jr. had an article appear in Hippocampus Magazine’s craft section last week: Thinking, Writing, Selling Your Naughty Thoughts. In it, he summarizes advice from his 2023 memoir and writing craft book Writing Dirty Words.
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Exciting news from the International Thriller Writers Association
When Dianna Sinovic asked me if I could apply for formal recognition as a publisher from the International Thriller Writers association, I did not expect that the application process would take two hours and require research, sections of my business plan and a copy of one of my contracts. Then I…
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What our bookstores say about us
I don’t know how I discovered Possible Futures, a bookstore and “community bookspace,” but visiting there was an experience, a special treat for the side of my publisher and academic self interested in critical theory and marginalized voices. I am linking to the about page on their website here, because…
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Review: Janet Evanovich How I Write
I finished Janet Evanovich’s How I Write, and I expected it to disappoint. Evanovich reports in the book that it takes laborious effort to make her Stephanie Plum novels read so simply. So, like the easy tone of her fiction, her writing craft book is also conversational. The book released…
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A note on Amazon categories
If you’d like a chuckle at Amazon’s inefficiencies in AI, I learned earlier that M.Christian’s and Ralph Greco Jr.’s new book, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know hit #17 in the Amazon parenting reference category. When I entered the metadata for this title, I focused on relationships, dating and intimacy— there…
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Find me on the radio
This week, I appeared on radio station WVIA’s Art Scene promoting the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group conference The Write Stuff in March. Host Erika Funke interviewed me as the current president of the group and Donna Brennan, our conference chair. For more information on the GLVWG Write Stuff conference, click here. To learn more about WVIA, click here. To scroll through their daily ArtSCENE broadcasts, click here.
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More poetry, more history
Recently, in my Substack newsletter, I mentioned how my grandfather served on the Queen Mary during World War II and how this led to his meeting and marrying my grandmother. I mentioned this because I was reading Jane Friedman’s hot sheet and saw she would be presenting at a writing…
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Upcoming Releases
Nonfiction: Sex In approximately two weeks, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know by M.Christian and Ralph Greco Jr. will hit the streets. The nonfiction collection of essays is available for preorder now on Amazon [click here] and will be available in Kindle Unlimited. It’s our version of a Valentine’s Day gift for you. Paid subscribers…
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Upcoming Activities for Writers
I give a monthly writers workshop as a volunteer at Easton Area Public Library (main branch, downtown Easton, Pa.) through April on the second Thursday of the month. The workshop portion will run roughly from 6 to 7:30 p.m., but I will be onsite by 5:30 p.m. in case anyone wants to socialize or…
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Align your marketing with your goals
I have a new article in the latest release of the online Hippocampus Magazine. In it, I discuss making your marketing plan work for your individual goals. Should you sign up for craft fairs and book festivals? Do you want to do a book signing at Barnes & Noble or at your favorite independent…
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