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Lakeshore Art Festival Part 2
Come join us this weekend in downtown Muskegon for the Lakeshore Art Festival (LAF) on June 24 & June 25.
Listen to part 2 of the special episode about Michigan Authors at LAF. More than 20 authors will be participating in this unique event.
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Lakeshore Art Festival comes to Muskegon Part 1
This is part I of the special episode about the Lakeshore Art Festival (LAF) in Muskegon on June 24 &25 with authors Emma Palova and Jean Davis. For complete info about participating authors go to part 2. Come to Author’s Alley on Clay St. & 4th this weekend to meet your next favorite read.
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Author Chloe Holiday’s Fly Boy is the second book in the All-American Boy series.
“The book had to have a boy in the title, but all the good ones, like Lover Boy, had been taken,” Holiday said. “I am a pilot so I wanted to bring a little bit of sky to people.”
There’s conflict in the air…
Tricia Carlisle returns to Texas to settle her beloved grandmother’s estate, only to find that foreclosure looms. Her hopes for an easy solution—selling the family’s crop duster—are dashed when Travis Walker, her high school sweetheart-turned-enemy, claims he had a handshake deal with Nana to buy the plane.
Listen in to the episode for a chance to win a signed copy of one of Holiday’s books.
Sponsored by Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger, and author Larry Maley
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Douglas Kelly of Lowell has been a partner at Evolve Solutions since 2002 when the company was founded. Evolve Solutions is an experienced web design and development firm, specializing in website design, marketing strategy, eCommerce application installation, and Internet business development.
Currently the principal at Evolve Solutions, he directs web development and consults on everything from social marketing to user interface design. Evolve Solutions has created and collaborated on hundreds of internet and intranet projects for small firms to multi-billion dollar corporations.
Kelly also offers voice acting for audiobooks, as well as tips on marketing strategy for authors.
“I would recommend Clubhouse to authors to talk about their books,” Kelly said.
Kelly has acted in a series of old-time radio dramas bound for YouTube. He has recently been featured in a documentary slated for streaming media. Douglas has done a series of comedy improv events hosted on a social media application called Clubhouse.
Sponsored by Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger, and author Larry Maley
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In his debut fantasy book Immersion, author Larry Maley creates a world of magic with six protagonists who face death manaars embodied by three witches. Maley follows the basic premise that “Life itself is magic that happens every day, everywhere.”
“I wanted to explore why is there a return of death magic,” Maley said. “It’s an epic adventure. The six characters are the focus, why did they get the magic.”
Maley’s Immersion is dedicated to his autistic daughter Samantha.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of Immersion, The Chronicles of the Manaar.
Sponsored by Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger, and author Larry Maley
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Just in time for the unofficial opening of summer, U.P. Reader hit the stands with its shining new volume 7 graced by the beautiful cover of a mining shaft at Painesdale on the Keweenaw constructed in 1902.
The hefty annual publication takes you on a road trip across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the Mackinac Bridge to Menominee with nonfiction and fiction pieces by UP authors who embody the life of a Yooper.
“Yoopers are born, not made,” said publisher Victor Volkman. “That’s why I can never be a Yooper.”
The 60 short works in the issue span the entire Upper Peninsula and include imaginative fiction from young winners of the Dandelion Cottage contest.
The cover is by author Mikel Classen.
Listen in for a chance to win a copy of U.P. Reader, Vol. 7
Sponsored by Doc Chavent and The Lowell Ledger
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In his North of Nelson anthology of short stories, author Hilton Everett Moore skillfully captures the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with its unique characters.
“The very area is a character,” he said. “The land expresses itself. It makes my stories work.”
Moore lives in a cabin in a remote area of Baraga County and transforms the ruggedness of the U.P. in his magnificent six short stories which have a common thread.
“Each short story has a moment in time,” he said.
The protagonists, the Martins, are featured in each story as they accompany each individual character.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of North of Nelson.
Sponsored by Doc Chavent and The Lowell Ledger.
I love May as it marks the beginning of summer according to ancient European traditions. My fondest memories date back to my school days at both the high school and Gymnasium Gottwaldow, now Zlin in the Czech Republic.
We always had the day off, not for ourselves, but for the communist society. The May Day parades were mandatory for both the students and the staff. The working class also had to participate in the parades. We all received patriotic pompoms to cheer the day and the officials seated on the bleachers. If a person didn’t show up for the parade, you got written up.
May Day also marked the official opening of the beer gardens. So right after the parade aka the March of Thieves, we frequented the fine establishments such as the beer garden by the Chateau. The parades ceased when the regime collapsed on Nov. 27, 1989, but the custom of opening the gardens prevailed.
I am excited about my May podcast guest lineup on For the Love of Books Podcast. Tune in for a chance to win a signed copy of your next favorite read.
May 2023 Podcast Schedule
FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS PODCAST with host EMMA PALOVA
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy in the podcast book giveaway.
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May Schedule 2023
Chloe Holiday, TBA May 5
Doug Kelly, Influencing, May 12
Hilton, Moore, North of Nelson, May 19
Victor Volkman, U.P. Reader 7th Volume
Sponsored by Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger,
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In her historical fiction novel The Man from Burnt Island, author Wendy Thomson weaves the family story into the tapestry of Detroit’s rich history during the Great Depression, Prohibition, World War II, and the booming automotive industry starting in the 1950s and beyond.
It was a tough life for the Scottish Sharp family at the turn of the twentieth century. Coal miners, they were exempt from the World War I draft. Frank, the fourth of five sons, was the only one that went off to war. Luckily, he survived the trenches, only to return to poor job prospects and poorer wages. When most of the family sailed across the Atlantic in search of a better life, Frank stayed behind for a while… for a little too long, it so happened.
What Frank sacrifices to achieve material and career success takes its toll on his family and personal life. After all is said and done, this is the saga of a determined and ambitious man who was hell-bent on leaving his poverty-stricken past behind.
Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of The Man from Burnt Island.
All April episodes sponsored by Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger, author Jen Rinaldi
For the Love of Books Podcast with host author Emma Palova is now in its third season with more than 100 episodes featuring indie and small press authors. Join us for edutainment, you can avoid the mistakes we’ve made as authors.
Here are author guests with links to their episodes in April. It has been an incredibly productive month, partially thanks to the cold weather in Michigan. Currently scheduling June and August. All recordings are on Zoom on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Sign up on the guest jotform. Please put down 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. since the form has its limitations.
Thanks to April sponsors Doc Chavent, The Lowell Ledger, and author Jen Rinaldi.
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