Category: review
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A New Book Venue in Town
When I’m not at my desk, and I’m not in a bookstore, I spend the bulk of my professional time in one of two places. You might find me at the Panera at the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa, sipping iced coffee and often writing for hours with…
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Books that capture psychology
In honor of E.H. Jacobs’ second novel, Into a Wider Sky, which launches July 1, we are presenting his list of five fiction books that explore internal psychology. Jacobs’ was a therapist by day, and his second novel explores what happens when psychology cross certain boundaries. In the case of the protagonist, he breaks…
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Review: The Business of Being a Writer
If you have any serious interest in writing, Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer, now its second edition will prove to be the best investment you can make in your own experience. I don’t care if you’re a hobbyist or a career writer, if you write to gain fame or to make money, if you have…
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Writers/Books in Entertainment
Books Featuring Writers Movies about Writing Television Shows Featuring Writers
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Bookstore Review: Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, Pa.
Voted the Publisher Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year Today Eva and I visited Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pa, the state capital. I am headed to Washington D.C. to meet my friend M with whom I will travel to Dublin later this week. Eva is technically delivering me to D.C.…
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Reflections on My Left Foot
I ended up reading Christy Brown’s My Left Foot this weekend. (The movie stars Daniel Day Lewis. I watched that also.) Christy, born in 1932 as a middle child in an Irish Catholic family of 22 children, had cerebral palsy. The only limb he could control was his left foot— and he even learned to…
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5-star reads from 2025
Let’s take a look at what I read in 2025. According to Goodreads, I read more than 15,500 pages in published books. I say published books because I also read unsolicited submissions for Parisian Phoenix and piles of pages for editing and critique. The shortest book I read was Exactly how I Promote and Sell…
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What I’m reading
Not including manuscripts we are publishing, I finished I’m currently reading I’m currently editing
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