Category: review
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My five-star reads of 2024
This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.
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Moravian Book Shop’s impact on my core memories of college
I have been working on a new resource for my paid subscribers of my Substack newsletter. It’s a page of writing craft books and my reviews of them. The list is available free here, but here you can taste what some of these books mean to me. BOOK: Shaughnessy, Susan.…
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Lessons from George Carlin
After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…
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Journalism Movies: Spotlight
The other day, something prompted me to think about journalism movies– I’m not sure what it was and I’m pretty sure it was something at the Museum of Printing that spurred the interest. As a Michael Keaton fan The Paper immediately popped into mind as one of my favorites. Another…
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On bookstores and Bibles
If you are a regular around here, you may know that Gayle Hendricks and I went to Massachusetts November 2 so that we could visit the museum of printing. We also visited Mystic, Connecticut; Andover, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; and New Haven, Connecticut. Bookstores E.H. Jacobs held his book launch for…
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Museum of Printing
I did not anticipate that it would be so hard to write about my visit to the museum of printing. I did not expect to rave about the Museum of Printing. Printing, and the history of, is a fairly eclectic interest. I knew I would not be bored at the…
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Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment
As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…
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The Impromptu Bookshop Tour
I drove from the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania to Atlanta, Georgia to host a workshop on erotic fiction writing at SexDownSouth in Galleria 2 of the Downtown Hilton at 4 p.m. today. So… this is really happening… I drove the whole distance, my trusted 2015 Jetta turbo and I, and…
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Phillipsburg Comic Con
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Phillipsburg Comic Con with my children’s book illustrator Joseph Swarctz promoting the Echo City Capers books. Joe trained at the Joe Kubert School in Dover, N.J., which if you are a fan of the comic book scene, you probably recognize as the place where comic book illustrators are born. To me,…