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Happy Anniversary in Song! August 22, 12 Years in Paradise for Mark and Frank
Yes, we’ve been married for 12 years! We’ve been together for almost 19. This is for my husband Frank, all the memories, and the adventures yet to come. – Mark
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The Twist Podcast #302: P-town Bound, Rick Reunites with Bev, and Emma Visits Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose in this pre-Provincetown vacation podcast. Rick fills us in on some hot new Rice Krispy treats, chats with Bev about their game show past, and joins Emma for her review of the Mr. Rogers documentary.
SURVEY RESUKLTS
Imagine yourself doing something else at the moment. What would it be?
Walking along a country road or hiking path. 44 percent
Taking a nap. ZERO –
Reading a favorite book or watching a favorite show. 20 percent
Eating a favorite meal or snack. 6 percent
Something else entirely. What would it be? 22 percentSOMETHING ELSE / OTHER:
Traveling somewhere new and exciting.
If time travel is permitted: An afternoon of sex at the age of 32!
Writing.Grocery shopping!
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NEW! Audiobook for ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due’ Now Available Directly!
LISTEN TO THE PREVIEW!
I’ll be distributing this through INAudio to Spotify and other select retailers, but I’ve also made it available directly from me for half the cost! Just click here for the product page on my PayHip storefront and check it out. There’s even a free preview you can listen to (or just listen to it with the audio above). This is exciting, and it’s only $8.95 from me. Fasten your headphones!
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This Week’s Survey: What Would You Rather Be Doing Right Now?
Imagine yourself doing something else at the moment. What would it be?
Walking along a country road or hiking path.
Taking a nap.
Reading a favorite book or watching a favorite show.
Eating a favorite meal or snack.
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A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due – Chapter 6 (Audio)
CHAPTER 6
Welcome to the episodic audio edition of A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due. Fasten your headphones and enjoy one new chapter each week. You can find all the episodes here.
A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due picks up where A House in the Woods left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it appears to be. Two years have gone by, and they’ve been good to the Calloways. Laurel and her husband Jeremy have a new house, and a new family with baby Isabel about to celebrate her first birthday. Everything seems perfect, until Laurel begins to have dreams. Bad dreams. Something tells her these dreams could really be memories. But of what? Of whom, and of when?
Did she really run over a woman in the road at night? Had they once had a dog? Why are these things trying so hard to surface, swimming slowly up from her subconscious? The more she begins to tell the people around her about these dreams, the more convinced she is that they’re part of it, and that these nightmares aren’t really dreams at all. Page after page, the pace escalates as Laurel begins to learn the truth and plot her escape. But will she succeed? The Devil is in the details.
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The Twist Podcast #300: Fireworks, Jumbotrons, Birthday Wishes, Zachary James Interview and So Much More
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we throw a studio party for our 300th episode. We started The Twist in 2018 and we’re as irreverent as ever. They’ll never paint over our rainbow lives or our sparkly podcast, as we enjoy a PBS review from Emma, Rick’s interview with Zachary James, and an up-and-personal chat with Jo Klett, whose wisdom and humor offer a balm for these chaotic times.
This Week’s Survey Results
If you could master one thing instantly what would it be?
Playing an instrument 65 percent
Speaking multiple languages 47.06
Cooking like a super chef  5.88
Painting or drawing 23.53
Other – what would it be? 5.88COMMENTS:
- Any and all! I always dreamed of being able to speak and understand whatever language of the country i was visiting, instantly and without study. That would be my superpower!
- Spanish and French so I can speak with my friends in Europe in their language
- Piano
- spanish, Portuguese
- understanding and predicting stock market fluctuations
- Ukulele
- Spanish and/or Portuguese, since we might end up moving to a place where that’s the primary language.
- Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic. Not French tho- I already speak the language of love bahahahahahaha!
- Singing
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Book Club Event a Success with Talk and Dinner
My book ‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery‘ was chosen by a local book club several months ago. This past Thursday I was invited to their monthly get-together at a restaurant in Glen Gardner, NJ, where they meet for a meal and discussion. I was treated to dinner and talked about the book and about writing. What a treat!
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New Workshop Starting in September! Autobiographical Writing at the Hunterdon Co. Main Library
I’m very excited to be starting a new monthly autobiographical writing workshop on the second Friday of each month, starting September 12, from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. The location will be the main Hunterdon County Library. You can register at the library’s website once they’ added it to their calendar.
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The Twist Podcast #299: Disappearing Client Lists, New Wisdom of Jo Audio, and Emma Zoe Lyons Reviews HBO’s ‘Enigma’
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we hunt for Jeffrey Epstein’s mysteriously vanishing client list, share more fan facts and photos, dig the Wisdom of Jo in her own words, and enjoy Emma Zoe Lyons’ review of HBO’s ‘Enigma.’
Last Week’s Survey Results
If you could be one of these things, what would you be?
Thinner 18.75 percent
Younter 31.25 percent
Richer 18.75 percent
Kinder 31.25 percentTwo ‘others’:
“Only if I could also still have all my experiential wisdom from 86 years.”
“Wiser” -
The Twist Podcast #298: Big Monstrous Bill, ‘Poop Cruise’ Movie Review, Fan Photos, and a Rick Rose Chat with Adele George
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we choke on the Big Ugly Bill, take our wins where we can get them, learn about the ‘Poop Cruise’ from Emma Zoe Lyons, and enjoy Rick’s conversation with author Adele George. Plus our weekly survey and new fan photos!
This Week’s Survey
New weekly survey! Only ONE answer preferred this time. Would you be thinner, younger, richer, kinder? Or something else.
A View from Our Listeners
These are pix of your co-hosts Mark and Rick with fans of the Twist.Send us your photo(s) and a line or two to: TheTwistPodcast AT gmail.com
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A Smashing Smashwords Summer Sale! All My eBooks Free for July
Another summer, another sale at Smashwords. Talk about freedom! You can download all (that’s ALL) my eBooks for free through the month of July.
You can also find dozens and dozens of other free and discounted books by your favorite authors, and ones who’ll soon join your list of must-reads.
FIND MY BOOKS HERE (be sure to click on each one for the freebie) or just go to Smashwords summer sale page and start browsing. Hot reading fun in the summer time!
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One Thing or Another Column: Midlife Waist Land
Narration provided by Wondervox
By Mark McNease
One Thing or Another is a column about life, aging, and the absurdities of it all.Â
Midlife Waist LandÂ
Since this column was first written we’ve seen a revolution in weight loss with the introduction and rapid spread of GLP-1 drugs. I’ve been using one myself for awhile now and I’ve lost 30 pounds. Will they change America’s obesity epidemic, or be another disappointment when we finally stop using them—if we ever do? Only time and affordability will tell. Stay tuned for the long-term side effects.
Whether or not you think your 60s still count as midlife (who doesn’t anticipate celebrating their 120th birthday wheezing out a single candle on a grocery store cake, flanked by an anxious home health aide and an impatient funeral director), the fact remains that age and width are proportionate for most of us. Not all of us, of course. There are those among us who insist they’re only as old as they feel, despite sharp disagreement from titanium hips and birth certificates. You know who you are: you swear by kale smoothies, you’ve never met an elliptical you didn’t want to mount, and you start each day by posting life-affirming platitudes on social media.
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A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due – Chapter 2 (Audio)
CHAPTER 2
Welcome to the episodic audio edition of A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due. Fasten your headphones and enjoy one new chapter each week. You can find all the episodes here.
A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due picks up where A House in the Woods left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it appears to be. Two years have gone by, and they’ve been good to the Calloways. Laurel and her husband Jeremy have a new house, and a new family with baby Isabel about to celebrate her first birthday. Everything seems perfect, until Laurel begins to have dreams. Bad dreams. Something tells her these dreams could really be memories. But of what? Of whom, and of when?
Did she really run over a woman in the road at night? Had they once had a dog? Why are these things trying so hard to surface, swimming slowly up from her subconscious? The more she begins to tell the people around her about these dreams, the more convinced she is that they’re part of it, and that these nightmares aren’t really dreams at all. Page after page, the pace escalates as Laurel begins to learn the truth and plot her escape. But will she succeed? The Devil is in the details.
