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    Just Added! In-Person Workshops In September

    May 7, 2025 / No Comments


    5 week autobiographical writing workshop at Bucks on Bridge

    I’ve just added four in-person workshop in September, to be held at Bucks on Bridge in their art space run by the artists’ collective Soupcon. I’m a partner, and this has been a terrific space to hold workshops. I just completed a 5 week journaling workshop there in April, and we’ve all bonded so much we’ll be reconvening in July.

    You can read about each of the four workshop here on the website, and register at the links below:

    Fiction Writing Essentials, Monday September 8 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    REGISTER HERE ($40)

    They’re Alive! Creating Vivid Characters, Monday, September 15, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    REGISTER HERE ($30)

    Self-Publishing with KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), Monday, September 22, 10:00 AM – 12:oo PM
    REGISTER HERE ($40)

    Guided Autobiography: A 2 Hour Introduction, Monday, September 29, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    REGISTRATION FOR THIS ONE WILL BE OPEN IN MID-JUNE ($40)
    Contact me at YourWritePath AT Outlook. com before then

     

     

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    Fiction Writing Essentials at the Bristol, PA, Library

    May 6, 2025 / No Comments

    This was one of my best workshop experiences yet: enthustiastic attendees who told me it could have gone another two hours. Several of them expressed interest in a self-publishing workshop and spoke to the program director about it afterward. Such a great morning.

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  • The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #293: Taking an Escape Cruise, This Week’s Survey, and a Rick Rose Interview with Poet Dr. Tacey Atsitty

    May 2, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as Mark prepares to flee on a cruise ship and Rick offers another great interview, with Dr. Tacey Atsitty, winner of the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry.

    TAKE THE SURVEY

    Cord-cutter or total abstinence? You can take the survey at the link. Multiple options are allowed.

    RESULTS OF LAST WEEK’S SURVEY (because multiple options are allowed, it’s not a simple “100 percent” total).

    What’s your preferred way of enjoying books?

    eBooks: 52.94%
    Hardback/paperback 41.18%
    Audiobooks 23.53%

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    This Week’s Survey: Television for the People

    May 1, 2025 / No Comments
    TAKE THE SURVEY

    Cord-cutter or total abstinence? You can take the survey at the link. Multiple options are allowed.

    RESULTS OF LAST WEEK’S SURVEY (because multiple options are allowed, it’s not a simple “100 percent” total).

    What’s your preferred way of enjoying books?

    eBooks: 52.94%
    Hardback/paperback 41.18%
    Audiobooks 23.53%

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    Mark
  • The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #292: Garden Goodness, Peanut Butter Possibilities, and an Interview with Filmmaker Dasha Brown

    April 25, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we make the most of a dying empire, calculate the number of peanuts in a jar, and enjoy Rick’s interview with filmmaker Dasha Brown.

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    April Showers Bring May Workshops! Fiction Writing Essentials at the Grundy Library (Bristol, PA) – May 3

    April 25, 2025 /

    May 3 is just around the corner! It’s a busy workshop month for me, kicking off with Fiction Writing Essentials in Bristol, PA. Support your local library!

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  • The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #291: Taser Treats, Vanishing Venezuelans, and an Interview with Madison’s Own Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford

    April 18, 2025 /

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we wade knee-deep in the MAGA madness, defend the Constitution, and enjoy Rick’s interview with Madison City Council’s Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford.

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    A New Testimonial

    April 15, 2025 /

    “I’ve been working with Mark on my autobiography for several months. He is insightful, talented, and a wonderful asset in bringing my life’s story to the page. He made it possible and pleasant. And fun!” – K.C.

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    A New Goodreads Giveaway! ‘Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller’, Runs April 9 – 30

    April 9, 2025 /

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    For U.S. residents only, per Goodreads

    Win 1 of 100 copies of ‘Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.’

    Marshall James returns for one more walk down murder’s memory lane in ‘Night Flight to Murder Town, Book  4’. Marshall is thinking of leaving New York City with his husband for a new life away from the hectic pace of the nation’s largest city. But how did he get here in the first place? After three stories detailing his harrowing Hollywood past, where lovers, losers, and a serial killer or two nearly ended his life before he could make something of it, he finally tells us how and why he left LaLa Land for Gotham.

    It was 1991 and a Christmas card showed up in the mail. An old flame was inviting him to make the move. L.A. had become a ghost town for Marshall and he was ready to get as far away as he could, as fast as a plane would take him. He caught a night flight to New York, and he soon found himself on a new and deadly path to a future he never saw coming.
    Money laundering, drug dealing, murder, and high stakes crimes by high-profile people all welcome him with a lethal embrace. It’s an origin story like no How did he end up here? Why did he stay? And is love possible after all that death and destruction? Find out in Night Flight to Murder Town. You’ll need to fasten your seat belts for this one.

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    New Workshop Coming in July: They’re Alive! Creating Characters With Lives of Their Own

    April 8, 2025 /

    Character Creation: They’re Alive!
     

    CLICK TO REGISTER

    Join us on Wednesday, July 30 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am eastern via Zoom ($30)- Limit 6

    This 90 minute workshop focuses on creating characters with lives of their own, from the protagonist and antagonist to the casual passerby.

    Writing is Listening
    It Takes a Village
    Motive, Means, and Opportunity: No Character Wasted
    Who was that masked woman?
    Without Conflict There Is No Drama
    The Character Biography
    AND MUCH MORE!

    Lean how to welcome a character into your mind and onto the page, with award-winning author and workshop instructor Mark McNease, from the comfort of your desk. This is an online workshop with a 6-person limit.

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    Hands Off Frenchtown, NJ: Small Town, Big Voice

    April 6, 2025 /

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  • The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #290: Corey Kills It, Wisconsin Wins It, and the Fall of the Cadbury Egg

    April 4, 2025 /

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we salute Corey Booker and the voters of Wisconsin for showing us the way, and grieve the loss of Cadbury Egg’s royal warrant after 170 years. Beyond sad.

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  • New

    Meet the Members – Author Mark McNease (from the MWA-NY Website)

    April 4, 2025 /

    Mark McNease is the author of the Kyle Callahan Mysteries, three of which have been best sellers on Kindle. His Linda Sikorsky Mystery, Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge, was called a winner by Publishers Weekly. He has released four Marshall James Thrillers, two Maggie Dahl Mysteries, and three books in the horror/supernatural genre under the name M.A. McNease.

    Mark has won two Emmys for Outstanding Children’s Program for Into the Outdoors, a television show he co-created that is now in its 23rd year.

    Along with being a current MWA-NY board member, Mark is a Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor, guiding small-group participants through the process of thematic journaling. He also conducts workshops in fiction writing and self-publishing. He leads two adult writers’ groups at two libraries (NJ and PA), and a monthly journaling group for New Hope Celebrates, a local LGBTQ community organization

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