My guest this week is Ginny Brennan, Producing Director and a founder of Lambertville, New Jersey’s, Music Mountain Theatre. Join me as we talk about Ginny’s involvement, the creation of Music Mountain Theatre, and the invaluable contribution it makes to the community and beyond.

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• Rick Rose for our February look back on politics, culture and more
• Maribeth Fabrizio on Tiny Miracles Animal Rescue

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Join me for a chat with Kevin O’Connor, of the O’Connor Literary Agency, as we get caught up on our old acquaintance and learn about the life of a literary agent.

Interesting people doing interesting things on the One Thing or Another Podcast.

About Kevin M. O’Connor

Kevin M. O’Connor has experience in every aspect of kids’ media. He started his career at Sesame Workshop: first in television and then in the toy group working on Sing & Snore Ernie, Rock & Roll Elmo and more award-winning toys.  He’s worked in business development on such brands as Kidz Bop, Nook Kids, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, and Go Math! Academy.

What a nice thing to wake up to. I was looking forward to hitting the 1,000 audiobooks sold milestone soon, only to see this morning that we’d blown past it. And I do mean ‘we.’ Good audiobooks require good narrators. Thanks to Daniela Acitelli for doing such a great job on ‘A House in the Woods.’

Fasten your headphones and keep the lights on! A House in the Woods is now available on audiobook. Narrated by the fabulous Daniela Acitelli, who has performed two previous books for me, it’s sure to make you think twice about stopping on a lonely country road.

EXTRA! I have 50 free download codes for this gem (25 US, 25 UK), so get ready to sit back, adjust the volume, and never look at the shadows in the room the same way again.

My supernatural chiller A House in the Woods is currently featured with over 40 other titles in a frighteningly fantastic Book Funnel bundled giveaway. CLICK HERE to see them all and make your picks!

HEY! REQUEST: Every click to check out the free books increases my “share score” with Book Funnel, a real help with future promotions. So if you have a few seconds, just surf on over to the terror turf and consider yourself thanked to the utmost. – Mark

I’ll be offering all my eBooks soon on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apples Books, and now on my own website! The advantages for readers of buying directly from me? All books at a deep discount, and you get to choose your own file type: ePub, MOBI or PDF. So let’s get the adventure going …

Are you listening? I’m making a limited number of complimentary audiobook codes available for all 10 of my audiobooks! Just email me HERE with your request for codes. Please specify the title, and a US or UK code. You can read about each audiobook my Audible author’s page or right here on the site! So enjoy … and fasten your headphones!

Q: “What’s your secret to a less stressful life, Mark?”

A: “Consider it a sand painting. The monks spend days, weeks or more creating these stunning paintings with grains of sand. Then they wipe them away with no regret, for that is life, its beauty, its brevity, and its impermanence. Never lose sight that the wiping away is coming. Live in the painting while you can. Share the secret.”

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Thirteen years ago over Martin Luther King weekend, a man I’d been dating less than a month invited me to his house in the New Jersey woods. I’d been a city boy until then, twelve in Los Angeles and, at that time, thirteen in New York City. I had no idea how I’d like this whole country living thing, but I knew the first morning I woke up here that I loved it. We spent weekdays in Manhattan and most weekends here at the house. We made the move permanent a year and a half ago when we walked out of the NYC apartment for the last time. I love it here, I love my life, and it’s good to celebrate thirteen years of our house in the woods.

I’ve had my ebooks exclusive to Amazon Kindle for years, in 90-day enslavements. This year I’m shaking things up and doing what I want to do, in part to reinvigorate my own creative output. Having ebooks sitting on Amazon year after year, unavailable anywhere else, is like killing them. Forgetting about them. Why did I write them? And how may people with Kindle Unlimited subscriptions are downloading them while Amazon rakes in the monthly fees and I get pennies? No more.

As my books come off the exclusivity period (all by the end of February), I’ll be adding them to Barnes and Noble (Nook), Kobo, and now Apple Books. I’m not concerned about how many I sell. My hustling days are over, those desperate months hoping I get enough from the free reads on Kindle to pay for a foot massage. I want to own my ebooks, just like musicians want to own their masters. So let’s start here …