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The Twist Podcast #257: Irish Eyes Wide Open, Fun Facts for the Faint of Heart, and Professor Mark’s Class Starts Now!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we scan the latest headlines, welcome the smell of cabbage on the stove, and consider having our eyeballs tattooed green.
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New Nature Paintings from Jean Ryan, Artist, Author and Poet
Jean Ryan has been a friend of mine for quite a few years now. Her writing and her painting always leaving me astonished that so much talent can reside in one person. She painted a commissioned portrait of our beloved cat Peanut when we first welcomed her to our home. Peanut left this world three weeks ago, and Jean’s painting of her hangs by our front door, where she always came running to when we got home.
Check out Jean’s artwork at her website.
Check out her short story collection Lovers and Losers on Amazon here, and her novel Lost Sister here.
And what better accompaniment to her paintings than her marvelous book of nature essays, Strange Company, here and on Audible! -
I’m Now a Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor!
And we’re off! My 2-hour Fiction Writing Essentials online workshop is filling up, and I’m putting together a 2-hour Guided Autobiography Introductory workshop I’ll be offering online and at several in-person locations.
Anyone attending who wants to dive deeper can sign up for the 6-week classes once I have them scheduled (YourWritePath.com). 2024 is turning out to be everything I’d hoped it would. And we have a new cat! James, our first male, and our youngest: 10 months old, a bed cat, an attention seeker, and he gets along great with Wilma (still my baby at 9).
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Workshops and Class Registration Now Available Through EventCreate!
You can now register for classes and workshops with Event Create, including payment! Here’s the link for the upcoming Fiction Essentials workshop.
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The Twist Podcast #256: Biden’s SOTU Smasher, and Our Show Topper Interview with Elise Tomashek, Miss Wisconsin Teen Volunteer
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we marvel at President Biden’s historic home run, scan the news and Personals Page, and enjoy an interview with Elise Tomashek, Miss Wisconsin Teen Volunteer competing for Miss Teen Volunteer America.
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I’m Finally Doing It: Fiction Writing Essentials Workshop May 4 (with Professor Mark!)
I’m finally doing it: I’ll be offering workshops and classes later this year, in Guided Autobiography, fiction writing, and more. First up is an online 2-hour ‘fiction essentials’ in May. As the little wooden sign says over my desk, “Actually, I can.” Here’s the course at my Payhip storefront. I’m keeping these to 10 participants, online and in-person when I find a space.
You can also Venmo me here ($30):
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The Twist Podcast #255: Soylent Green is Embryos, Professor Mark Talks to Students, and An Interview with Dr. Harvey Abrams
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we tut-tut the Alabama Supreme Court, celebrate Mark’s recent high school writing class talks, and hear Rick’s interview with Dr. Harvey Abrams of the Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library.
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Professor Mark: Coming Full Circle with a High School Class
I left Indiana three days after graduation high school, leaving for California. It was my creative writing teacher, Mr. Kenton Monjon, who told me he thought I was one of the few students he’d had who he thought could make it as a writer. And here I am!
I just spoke to two senior creative writing classes yesterday, and I have two more to go. It’s great experience for me: bored high school students are a tough crowd. It’s like being a standup comedian in front of an audience that doesn’t laugh. You keep going. You learn to roll with it. These are all skills I’ll need in the coming months as I embark on Your Write Path.com, offering Guided Autobiography courses, journaling and writing workshops, and of course Dreamshaping. It’s all about living our dreams!
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The Twist Podcast #254: Kansas City Crushes It, Fani Fires Back, and a Loopy Leap Year Listicle
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we salute the Kansas City Chiefs, jaw-drop at Fani Willis’s courtroom fireworks, and offer up a loopy leap year listicle.
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All Kyle Callahan Mysteries Free on Kindle for 5 Days!
You thought I was done with the February giveaways? Not quite …
If you picked up the first in the Kyle Callahan Mysteries at our great BookFunnel giveaway, here’s your chance to get the rest free for five days.
Six more books in the series are free on Kindle from February 15 – 19, including ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge,’ featuring Kyle’s best friend Linda Sikorsky, retired New Hope, PA, police detective.
Just visit the series page at Amazon for all the book, and start downloading!
And remember, reviews and ratings are an author’s best friends.
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‘I, Warlock’ Audiobook Is Out! Plus a Multi-Author BookFunnel Promo (February 15 – 29)
Listen to a 3-chapter sample at the Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast
Fasten your headphones! ‘I, Warlock’ the audiobook has arrived.
“He hoped love was eternal … because he was.”
This is my third audiobook with narrator Sean Rhead, and what a pleasure it is! Listen at Audible.
About ‘I, Warlock’ (currently on sale for $1.99, and available on Kindle Unlimited)
I, Warlock tells the story of Julius Tide, born part-vampire, destined to be all warlock. Julius is an almost accidental warlock, born into a family of witches. He meets the beautiful Charlotte one day at a country fair, and proceeds to dedicate his life to marrying her. Keeping his witching ways a secret, he becomes the night to her day, the guilt to her innocence, as he rushes to solve a mystery that has her family in danger and their futures in doubt. Good confronts evil several times over in this epic battle to save or sacrifice the world, set to the backdrop of a love story for the ages.
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The Twist Podcast #253: Skittish SCOTUS, Biden’s Brain Debacle, and Horrible Valentine’s Gifts for that Special Someone
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we consider SCOTUS’s sudden humility in the face of promised MAGA mayhem, Biden’s big bad brain day, and America’s favorite manufactured holiday. Be our Valentine!
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The Twist Podcast #252: Taylor Triumphant, Joltin’ Jodie Foster, and Some Twist Podcast Predictions for 2024
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose we we toast Taylor Swift’s conquest of the world, give mad props to Jodie Foster, and makes some fun Twist Podcast predictions for the coming year.