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Indie and small press authors talk about the writing craft and their support for each other’s work.
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Friday Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Happy Holidays
Heywood Banks performs at The Old Theater on Friday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 14. Get your tickets now. Go to www.theoldtheater.com
Listen in to win a free ticket to Dixon's Violin on Dec. 29 at TOT. The fundraiser to replace the marquee runs through Jan. 11. Stop at TOT to get your ornament.
Sponsored by Moravian Sons Distillery, Doc Chavent, Lowell authors Glad Fletcher and Kathryn DenHouter.
Built in 1928, The Old Theater in downtown Lowell is a magical place where all wishes and dreams come true thanks to its owners Lisa and David Reed. Lisa's wish to have a white Christmas came true on Wednesday. Young artists' dreams of performing on stage in front of a live audience come true here at TOT, and dancers can dance the night away on Fridays. Listen to this enchanting episode to win a free ticket to Dixon's Violin on Dec. 29.
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Friday Dec 06, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Lowell authors Glad Fletcher and Katherine Den Houter joined forces for a special holiday book signing event at the Coffee House at Cascade Christian Church on Dec. 14 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Holiday episode sponsored by authors Kathryn Den Houter, Glad Fletcher, Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of Fletcher's or Den Houter's books.
Copyright (c) 2024. Emma Blogs, LLC. All rights reserved.
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving. Make words happen because books make great gifts.
Some policy changes in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) non-profit organization caused a mass exodus of writers and authors into different stratospheres.
TrackBear tracks your writing progress and multiple goals.
For 19-year NaNoWriMo veteran author Jean Davis switching tracks from NaNoWriMo to TNT was simple. She uses TrackBear to organize multiple writing projects. In case you're wondering what TNT stands for, it is That November Thing.
"I am not as behind the organization as I used to be," she said. "November is still my writing month."
The new variations of NaNoWriMo carry on the same basic principle of getting people together to write. TrackBear allows you to work on separate goals
together.
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving. Books make great gifts.
Author Larry Jorgensen tells the true-life adventure of the 1926 City of Bangor shipwreck rescue off the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan.
A fierce November storm tossed the ship with a crew of 23 and 240 new Chrysler automobiles onto a Lake Superior reef. For the first time, Shipwrecked and Cars and Crew tell the near-tragic story of lost and desperate shipmates floundering for two days in the deep snow and near-zero temperatures. Jorgensen's detailed research and collection of historical photos chronicles what happened, introduces the key players, and finally reveals the fate of those collectors' prizes in the century since.
Listen in to win a signed copy of Shipwrecked and Rescued. Contact Emma via the website emmapalova.com with the name of the city that deceived Captain Mackin's logistics in this story.
Sponsored by @Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent
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Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving. Books make great gifts.
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a collection of poems that explores the mysteries of the human condition--from pain and loss to joy and friendship--all the big, hairy things that fill our lives with wonder and, sometimes, heartbreak.
The poems in the book chase the mythical figure of Bigfoot through mountain and forest, trying to capture the greatest mystery of all--love.
Listen for a chance to win a signed copy of A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders.
Sponsored by @Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.
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Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
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
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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.
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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
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
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.
