Category: from the publisher
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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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Used Books in Coopersburg
Let’s come back to the Lehigh Valley and talk about our recent visit to Medina Books and Coffee on Main Street in Coopersburg, Pa. For our Readers: Medina Books and Coffee If you are a reader, Medina Books and Coffee has recently expanded their presence in Coopersburg, Pa. The store is a…
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While in Yemen…
If you saw my post yesterday, I talked about my travels in Tunisia, Yemen and Somalia. In Yemen, I had tea at one of the “coffee houses” in the suq. I originally lingered outside because women in Yemen do not frequent the same social spaces as men, but as a traveler/guest, I was invited…
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