Author Mike, joined by the irrepressible Roxy -The Insane Golden Retriever (aren’t they all…) had a great time at Woofstock 2009. Huge crowds of 2 and 4 footed creatures jammed Riverfront Park on a beautiful September day to celebrate all things canine including my Lazy Dog Mystery. Big thanks goes out to Pat Dravk of [...]
A great big HELLO to all you Barkreaders out there!!! Author Mike will be selling and signing copies of Bark of the Tree at the biggest and best downright fun event for dogs and their owners - WOOFSTOCK!!!
The fun begins in Riverfront Park with a parade of costumed pooches at 11:00 AM (near the Kunkle Plaza) in Harrisburg, PA, [...]
To celebrate the Big Read program, Author Mike has assembled all 28 of his Sun Sci Fi short stories into a 134 page anthology called, It Came From Beyond the Sun. In addition to the stories, Author Mike is including an author’s commentary describing how each story came about. Add to that an introduction by [...]
Jumpstreet, that dynamic dynamo of the arts in Harrisburg, PA, has selected Author Mike Silvestri to be their keynote speaker when Jumpstreet hosts the three-county Big Read program on Ray Bradbury’s Sci Fi Classic, Fahrenheit 451. Adults and high school students will be reading this legendary work and discussing it during several events this fall and winter.
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I came to the conclusion that most writers who were pitching agents thought of their appointment as though they were speed dating the entire Spanish Inquisition. After all, we believe that agents sit in judgment upon us, poke us with [...]
At any Pennwriters’ conference, one of the best attended sessions is the Agents/Editors Panel Discussion. This is where we writers suck in any and all advice concerning trends, preferences, opportunities, turnoffs, and anything else those agents and editors care to share faster than light near a black hole.
Some questions were the same. “What’s the latest [...]
There’s no other way to express it - LISA SCOTTOLINE ROCKS!!!
The best selling author and former lawyer delivered a dynamic keynote that set us to belly laughs, touched us, and galvanized everyone in the room with her tremendous energy. (Trust me, some speeches induce comas.) When she finished, every Pennwriter present stood up in an honest [...]
Nothing helps being at a conference like having some of your fellow local writers there. The obvious benefit is having somebody you know to talk to. Since you can’t get to every session, it also gives you somebody to share knowledge with. What’s even better is somebody who has seen, or talked with, an agent [...]
A primal call sounds every mid-May to bring our species of writer together - The Pennsyvanius writerus or Pennwriter. Think geese returning to their home marsh without begging you for bread crumbs or fouling the sidewalks. Okay, maybe somebody fouled your particular sidewalk, but it wasn’t me. Trust me, you’d know if it was.
I have [...]
Fellow writers, want to get published? Okay, silly question. But answers to that most vexing question of just how to get published might be on the horizon. Medallion Press Authors invites listeners to a live edition of Medallion Press Radio on April 4, from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. CST. This is a live, round-table discussion [...]