DJ Kristoff has recently launched her children’s book series, Dino Diane’s Adventures. Visit her website for Saddlebags of Gold and The Secrets of the Five Rays of Light for upper middle-grade, young adults. www.dinodianesadventures.com
Dear Fellow Poets and Friends:
Santa was especially kind to me this Christmas. He brought me an entire hour of NPR Radio time so that I could recite and share my poetry with you and the wonderful WGCU listening audience.
Click the link below to see and listen to the broadcast page and audience.
Happy Holidays.
Joe Pacheco
To celebrate Veteran’s Day, historian DL Havlin, dropped by to talk about Donald Roebling, who went from the inventor of a vehicle called LVT (landing vehicle tracked) nicknamed “The Alligator” that started out as a hurricane-rescue boat but turned into something that Admiral Nimitz saved 100,000 in World War II . https://www.spreaker.com/episode/47394541
DL’s book Blue Water Red Blood
Author DL Havlin announces the release of “Christmas Cookies Mysteries” an anthology of short stories that accompanies the Oak Ridge Boys’ album Christmas Cookies. He is one of fourteen authors contributing stories to the book…including Joe Bonsall one of the “Oaks.”
M. E. Roche’s new book, The South Spit Murders, will be release November 15, 2021.
It’s during the early morning hours on a rainy night when the sound of gunshots brings sheriff’s detectives to a lone campsite on the south spit—that remote strip of land separating the Pacific Ocean from William’s Bay. There they discover three, seemingly unrelated murder victims and a case taking them from the seedier areas of their town to those of the most affluent, where hostility, greed, and jealousy seems to drive each of their suspects to act.
Murder, She Wrote Debonair in Death, the fifty-fourth book in the long running series featuring Jessica Fletcher is now available in hardcover, e-format and audio. Terrie Farley Moran is delighted that Murder, She Wrote Killer on the Court will follow in May, 2022.
Claudia Gagnon won First Place in a Flash Prose Writing Contest.
Congratulation, Claudia!
Bob McCarthy has an article, Adams Street, Springfield, Ma, featured on New England Memories.
Some months ago Rebeca Seitz spoke to our group about turning our books into podcasts. The first episode of Pauline Hayton’s “Grandma Rambo” came out April 15th. The podcast has 12 x 30 minute episodes, one per week.
Vic Larson has an essay appearing in a literary journal next month, which will be available on Amazon. His article, called “Violets are Blue” is listed among the essays.
