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Podcast Friday: Second Career Volunteer

Posted on: February 11, 2011 Last updated on: February 11, 2011 Written by: tbm

As a hard-working administrative assistant who raised three children on her own, Barbara Traynor didn’t want her retired life to be limited by a small income. Becoming a “second career volunteer” enabled her to stay active, see parts of the…

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Podcast Friday: Come Fly with Me (or Ed Chevrette)

Posted on: February 4, 2011 Last updated on: February 4, 2011 Written by: tbm

In 1959, Ed Chevrette was a sixteen-year-old student pilot, and, as he says in his book, Wings of Fortune, it was the greatest experience of his life. Ed went from flying a fabric-covered Cub to becoming a corporate Learjet pilot.…

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Podcast Friday: A Woman, a Necklace, and a Novel

Posted on: January 28, 2011 Last updated on: January 28, 2011 Written by: tbm

Pat Carley, a life-long resident of Troy with a fascinating Hungarian heritage, has written a short novel,  My Grandmother’s Necklace. In it, she weaves together imagined and factual details of her grandmother’s life in Europe  before emigrating to the United…

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Podcast Friday: Marion Roach Smith

Posted on: January 21, 2011 Last updated on: January 21, 2011 Written by: tbm

Marion has been teaching a memoir-writing class at the Arts Center of the Capital Region for over a decade. Her recent book, Writing What You Know: Realia, has been picked up by one of the “big six” publishers. (Yeah!) In…

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Podcast Friday: Meet the Chupka’s

Posted on: January 14, 2011 Last updated on: January 14, 2011 Written by: tbm

Imagine a mother, father, and daughter writing a book together. Now imagine, a mother, father, and daughter writing a book together about their family’s drug and alcohol addiction problems. In It Went without Saying, Joyce (mom), John (dad), and Jamie…

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Podcast Friday: Kerry Mendez

Posted on: August 27, 2010 Last updated on: August 27, 2010 Written by: tbm

We’ve posted our second podcast! Last Friday we featured an interview with Bob Congemi, English professor, Albany resident, and author of three collections of short stories. This week we have Kerry Mendez, author of the perennially popular, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s…

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Author Activity Booklet

When quarantine started, we decided we wanted to do something for all you writers looking for ways to stay creative and tackle new projects. We’ve put together a booklet full of prompts to help you consider the main points of…
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Connect Virtually

Facebook and Instagram are essential platforms as an author. The former for connecting and discussing with your readers, and the latter for sharing excerpts of your work or pictures of books you’re reading. You may, by now, be familiar with…
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Writing for Happiness

Though this blog has lain long dormant, during this time of indefinite quarantine we wanted a way to reach out and connect with our community and give a little inspiration to home-bound writers. We hope all of you feel happy…
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Colored Pencil Crisis!!

Just kidding! But, in the wake of the rising popularity of adult coloring books, there has been a surge in color pencil production. Faber-Castell, maker of high-end colored pencil, cites needing to add extra shifts to keep up with demand. Read the whole…
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Looking at letters.

Although our experienced design staff is more than happy to chose typefaces that will be a great fit for your project, it’s always nice for authors to take a peek at some tried and true fonts. Let your book designer…
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