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  A Monolith Celebration

  Last night, I had the pleasure of attending an on-line release party for a new middle grade fiction novel, Monolith, by author Jess Rinker. I have known Jess since high school and we have casually conversed during the last fifteen years about our lives and our creative goals. Her youngest…

  13 Mar 2024
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  Renewing Habits

  Hi. Does anybody realize we’re at the end of February already? I mean, I guess I did but I also didn’t. I have so many small odds and ends going on that it’s hard to focus on what needs to be told to the world. So bear with me as…

  23 Feb 2024
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  From Lehigh Valley News. com: Wayne Sherrer at the Sigal Museum

  Our own Wayne Sherrer appeared in Lehigh Valley News.com as part of their Black History in the Lehigh Valley article: Graves and genealogy Additionally, author Rev. Wayne C. Sherrer’s exhibition, “Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021,” shines the light of the Black experience in the…

  29 Jan 2024
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  Phorgotten No More launches today: The African American history of Phillipsburg

  Today— 1/15/2024, strategically for Martin Luther King Jr. Day— Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of the African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021 will launch on all the regular platforms from Barnes & Noble (order now here) to Bookshop.org and that influential online retailer Amazon.com has it listed here. Wayne has collated and poured over…

  15 Jan 2024
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  This is the hill Kirk Cameron wishes to die on: Scholastic vs. Sky Tree

  I don’t think there’s any one of us who does not know the Scholastic School Book Fair. I never realized until my adult life that Scholastic was a book publisher and I thought as a child that they merely loved book so much they gathered them up and brought them…

  22 Nov 2023
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  Speaking of Ralph: 3rd times a charm—Bruce Friedman’s ‘Adult Site Broker Talk’ Podcast

  When we released Writing Dirty Words, Ralph was a guest on Adult Sit Broker Talk with Bruce Friedman. Now some of the discussion revolves around erotica, but some of the talk is about Parisian Phoenix and the journey Ralph took in bringing his writing craft book/memoir to fruition. The conversation…

  10 Nov 2023
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  Ralph Goes Back to School & then to EXXXotica

  By Ralph Greco Jr. I don’t really like to chat, post, blog or talk about myself or my doings, but last week was unusual in that I seemed to have a lot coming my way via my writing. And one extra special event that really tickled my giblets… and without…

  6 Nov 2023
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  The final plug, TOMORROW 10/28: Using Podcasts to Research, Improve and Promote Your Writing

  At the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting TOMORROW, after I perform my official duties as president, I will deliver a program and workshop on how podcasts can help your writing. Yes. You read that correctly– using podcasts to RESEARCH what you are writing about, IMPROVE your techniques and PROMOTE what…

  27 Oct 2023
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  We interrupt this program… to bring you Echo City Capers on Channel 69 Saturday morning

  Next weekend, creator Joseph Swarctz and writer Ralph Greco Jr. will launch their tour to five Lehigh Valley bookstores This coming Saturday morning, our own boldly-adorned crusaders, Joe and Ralph, the duo behind Echo City Capers, who I have not seen in capes are scheduled to appear on Channel 69’s…

  18 Sep 2023
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  Writing Dirty Words— memoir? craft book? humor?

  Ralph Greco Jr. launched in July his latest title, Writing Dirty Words (buy it here or from your favorite source of books, remember all of our titles are available through Ingram). It finds itself the #1 hot new release in “erotica fiction writing reference” on Amazon. Ralph has some honest…

  17 Aug 2023