Episodes
5 days ago
5 days ago
The first 100 pages of How to Hike the North Country Trail: not quite a Guide explain why the North Country Trail is unique among National Scenic Trails and why its political history causes the checkerboard of allowed uses found along its length.
One cannot just camp anywhere along the trail. This requires much
more planning for a long hike than some hikers expect. The rest of
the book is the first-ever attempt to list all the legal places to camp or find
lodging along the 4800 miles of the NCT. As the title says, it's "not quite a
guide." This trail is still too long and too fluid to publish the level of
detail that a true guide would contain. However, the book in conjunction with
the free interactive map at northcountrytrail.org, is a great aid in creating a
plan for a long hike.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of How to Hike the North Country Trail.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent
Copyright (c)2024. Emma Blogs, LLC. All rights reserved.
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Author Craig A. Brockman pens Dead Silence
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Happy Halloween! It is windy outside, and we lost power but got it back just in time for the podcast. So enjoy.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.
Craig A. Brockman, author of the award-winning Dead of November, has published the third book Dead Silence in his trilogy.
Ron Jarvin’s quiet, solitary life is about to be turned upside down. A young woman claims to be his daughter and the former priest is torn by trepidation as he prepares for their reunion. But as he makes his way to meet her, he is suddenly thrust into a dark and deadly world beyond his wildest nightmares.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of Dead Silence.
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Blogs, LLC. All rights reserved.
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Author Allison Spooner pens The Lost Girl and The Things We Cannot Change
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Allison Spooner is the author of the Amazon Bestseller and #1 New Release, The Lost Girl: A Neverland Story. She's also published two collections of genre-crossing flash fiction, Flash in the Dark: A Collection of Flash Fiction and The Problem with Humans: And Other Stories, and has contributed to several horror and science fiction anthologies. Her newest novel is the fictionalized true story, "The Things We Cannot Change: A Story about the Ghosts Created by Addiction."
Her stories have been called, "unique works of art," and "brilliant, disturbing, and thought-provoking," and The Lost Girl was the winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Winter Competition.
Listen to win a signed copy.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Blogs, LLC.
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Yooper Ale Trails presents Michigan's Upper Peninsula breweries and brewpubs
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
Mikel B. Classen and Jon C. Stott, award-winning authors of travel books, provide expert guidance for beer aficionados and tourists to visit the 29 unique craft breweries and brewpubs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in Yooper Ale Trails.
The tours to breweries are organized geographically from the east UP to the west side into eight picturesque ale trails. Each brewery or brewpub has its own story. Classen and Stott have captured the essence of the beer scene in the UP since the mid-1990s. Classen suggests planning six months for an ale trail trip.
"The book itself is a little bit of a roadbook too, you get a good breakdown of beers we found there," Classen said.
Listen to the episode to win a signed hardcover copy of Yooper Ale Trails.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Blogs, LLC.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Peg Herring pens novel Fake
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Author Peg Herring Peg Herring is a former educator who lives in northern Lower Michigan. Her Tudor mysteries starring Princess/Queen Elizabeth garnered nice reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, New York Journal of Books, and Library Journal. The first book of her paranormal series, The Dead Detective Agency, received a Best Mystery of the Year Award from EPIC. In 2014 Peg stole her grandmother’s name and started writing cozy mysteries. Since then, Peg has written women's fiction and suspense while Maggie Pill writes cozies.
Monday Oct 07, 2024
U.P. author Nancy Besonen pens Off The Hook 1 & 2
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Nancy Besonen's "Off The Hook," published in 2023, is a collection of humor columns she successfully slipped by her editor over a 30-year reporting career for L'Anse Sentinel.
However, there were still a few very silly things left unsaid. Shamelessly borrowing from her original recipe, she unleashed her second and final installment, "Off The Hook Too!," in 2024, rounding out what she likes to call "The Compleat Works of Nancy Besonen." (take that, William Shakespeare!)
Sponsored by Doc Chavent and Moravian Sons Distillery
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Palova. All rights reserved.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Author Sarah Geddes pens Henry the Sneezing Dragon
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Jacob and Trevor are brothers and the best of friends. They have avid imaginations and love to play make-believe. Their favorite thing is playing on their saucer swing and pretending to fly to the moon. One day when Jacob loses a tooth, the tooth fairy comes - but she has run out of money and decides to leave fairy dust instead. The boys use the fairy dust to go on an adventure of a lifetime!
Monday Aug 12, 2024
correction to Being Restored giveaway
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
The first listener who emails Phyllis Ewing with subject line book podcast giveaway will get a signed copy of Being Restored. The correct email address is phylje12@gmail.com
Sunday Aug 11, 2024
gr_Interview_with_Phyllis_20240807_141940
Sunday Aug 11, 2024
Sunday Aug 11, 2024
Author Phyllis Ewing pens novella Being Restored about her passion for restoring AG and MAC dolls. The correct email address for the podcast giveaway of Being Restored by Phyllis Ewing is phylje12@gmail.com
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Author Summer Porter pens A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island II
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
This delightful "Squeak-quel" to A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island illustrated by Maggie Chambers takes the mouse family on a vacation to the one and only historic Grand Hotel. Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of the book.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Blogs, LLC. All rights reserved.