The Best Bookstore Visit - Ever!
I emailed about 50 independent bookstores as I prepared to tour the West and Midwest this past month to promote The Rebel Nun. Most of...
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mcharlier1953
- Oct 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Long and Not-Winding Road
Did you ever arrive at an appointment with someone you’d never met before, and the second you saw his or her face, you knew they weren’t...
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mcharlier1953
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Denver Chapter of the Book Tour
When I told my brother I was coming to Denver to visit independent bookstores, he suggested I contact West Side Books, a store in the...
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mcharlier1953
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
The Ouray Surprise
While we vacationed in Ridgway, CO, waiting for my book tour to begin, my friend Janet came down from her home in Colorado Springs to go...
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mcharlier1953
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Cargo Van
I love my Ford Explorer. It is 23 years old and roomy. I’m as comfortable in it as I am in my favorite reading chair at home. And I can...
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mcharlier1953
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
How to do a book tour Or Not Part One
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be on a book tour? Whether you are a writer or a reader, the thought may have occurred to...
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mcharlier1953
- Aug 28, 2021
- 7 min
The good, the bad, the best-selling for August
I've become a bit of a curmudgeon lately, reviewing most books I read tepidly, and only occasionally sharing one that I truly love. This...
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mcharlier1953
- Aug 16, 2021
- 2 min
Hooray for indie bookstores!
The coolest people in the world, without a doubt, are independent bookstore owners and their staff. Among them are Brian and Amy Exstrum,...
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mcharlier1953
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
The touchy quandary of writing reviews as a writer
This post originally ran in the Riverside Press Enterprise, July 25,2021, as one of the column for Inlandia Institute. It seems like a...
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mcharlier1953
- Jul 26, 2021
- 9 min
Summer Reads and Some that Will Take You into Fall
A Hand to Hold in Deep Water by Shawn Nocher It is hard to believe, in a way, that this is Shawn Nocher’s first novel. It is so...
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mcharlier1953
- Jun 22, 2021
- 9 min
A Month of Eclectic Reads
It's been a good month for reading for me. I spent the past four weeks at an artist colony residency where I wrote the first "shitty...
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mcharlier1953
- Jun 14, 2021
- 4 min
The (relatively) unexplored relevance of medieval tales
This blog first appeared as a guest blog on Novels Alive: https://novelsalive.com/2021/06/10/guest-blog-the-relatively-unexplored-relevan...
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mcharlier1953
- May 28, 2021
- 11 min
The great, good and not so good reads for June
I read a bit more than usual in May because I was putting off my next writing project until I left for my residency at Dorland Mountain...
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mcharlier1953
- May 14, 2021
- 3 min
Black Death and Covid: History Rhymes Again
Over the past 15 months, thousands of writers have evoked the plagues of the Middle Ages to either make us feel better or worse about the...
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mcharlier1953
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
Supporting Indie Presses and Indie Authors
A version of this blog was published in the Riverside Press Enterprise and other Southern California News Group newspapers Sunday, May 9....
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mcharlier1953
- May 3, 2021
- 4 min
The Diaspora that Transformed the Western World
A version of this post originally appeared at https://novelsalive.com/2021/04/27/guest-blog-diaspora-by-marj-charlier-plus-giveaway/ One...
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mcharlier1953
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Repost: Creating characters, not quite from scratch
This is a repost from the blog, Any Shiny Thing - Life After 50. Thanks to Lynne Spreen for sharing these thoughts with her readers!...
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mcharlier1953
- Apr 25, 2021
- 8 min
April books: the good and not so great
My book reviews for this month include two non-fiction, one fiction from an esteemed author and, yes, finally, some chick lit, to ease...
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mcharlier1953
- Apr 19, 2021
- 2 min
Did You Ever Hear of Book-Blog Tours?
Have you ever heard of a book-blog tour? Until I left corporate America and started writing and publishing books for a living, I’d never...
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mcharlier1953
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
The Unbearable Reality of Being Idle
Doing nothing doesn’t suit me very well. It probably doesn’t suit many of us. Not only is it boring, it is enervating, encouraging even...
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