My friend, the artist Margaux Kent of Peg and Awl, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her latest art book, Take Your Time Loving Me!

Please back this project. There are a lot of great rewards. It’s going to be a really incredible project!

Click here to check out Margaux’s Kickstarter campaign.

Happy birthday, Herman Melville!

BOOK NEWS

All of my books will now be published by Silk Raven Press!

My first two books will be reissued shortly in REVISED editions.

Around the same time, Silk Raven Press will begin publishing Saving Magdalene.

My fourth book, Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County, should be released in November or December, just in time for holiday shopping!

Run, don’t walk, and buy Reconstructing Amelia by Kimbery McCreight

(Click the link to visit Kimberly’s web site

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Is it a mystery, an incisive character study, or a coming of age novel? Answer: all three

This entry was posted in Literary on June 11, 2013 by Michael-Patrick Harrington.

I am pleased to announce that Saving Magdalene is now available for the Nook!

Greetings Readers—

I don’t know how writers worked before the advent of the computer age. It’s not spell check that I’m thinking of—it’s the Internet. The ability to do some research (or at least start it) without leaving your chair never ceases to amaze me.

Sometimes it makes me feel guilty. Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf didn’t need an Internet to create their astounding works of fiction.

But each age uses what tools are available to them, and after spending the last couple of days researching corsairs, women’s after bath splash, and Ingrid Bergman’s parents, I’m pretty grateful.

Mp

The great critic and writer Roger Ebert died today. His voice and his pen will be sorely missed.

To read more, click here.

The great critic Roger Ebert keeps getting the burnt end of the stick, but somehow he keeps going on – and his writing is better than ever.

To read more, click here.

I now have an Amazon Author Page. Click here to check it out.

There is also an RSS Feed for my blog. I don't know much about RSS feeds, but if you do, this link will take you to where you can subscribe.

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