Eileen Corbeil owns White Square Fine Books and Art in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She says every community should have a bookstore. “It’s more than just a place to sell books, it’s a gathering [...]
Steve Strimer says the Pioneer Valley is rich with authors who have something to say, and the traditional publishing world is getting more and more difficult for them to navigate. This set of [...]
Suzanne Strempek Shea says her idea of a hectic commute is walking down a hallway to her office, her office being a sunroom in the winter and her back patio from May to October.
Marian Kent, a 48-year-old grant writer and successful Easthampton poet, says “if I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it.” This affirmation is evident throughout Marian’s work, and [...]
John Sheirer is an episodic writer. The 53-year-old local Northampton author works full time as a professor at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Connecticut, and he writes creatively on the side.
My learnings from my internship experience with Janice Beetle really fall into two life categories: professional and personal. I’ll start with the former. Janice is a bright businesswoman who has [...]
Note: This is the first in a series of blogs on authors living in the Pioneer Valley. As part of my internship, Janice has decided to have me interview local authors and blog about them to give [...]
Tim Schreiner did a 180 when he entered college. His background is in IT, and he had even declared computer science as his major, but he soon realized that he loved his English classes more; IT [...]