My profile is up on Tutors.com. Please feel free to contact me through the website or directly at professordespres (at) gmail.com for online tutoring information. Topics include: Creative Writing Academic Writing Expository Writing Communications Creative Nonfiction My previous experience is…
A New Beginning
Today, I join the ranks of the more than 40 million Americans who have been left unemployed due to the COVID-19 crisis. After two and a half years working as the head writer and editor for the marketing division of…
Free and Discounted Stray Cat Stories E-books for National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day
Stray Cat Stories Children’s Books is offering the e-book version of TRIBBS: THE VERY HANDSOME CAT for FREE this Thursday, April 30, for National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day. I adopted Tribbs from a shelter (through a pet store, as…
“Still Life with PTSD and Geese”
These are strange, almost surreal times. Amidst all the chaos, I was honored to be published by an innovative literary journal called Bending Genres. The April issue came out today, and I can’t wait to read it. My very short…
Publication Date is here for Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat
It’s National Love Your Pet Day, and for me it’s a double celebration, because it’s also the publication date for Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat. It took a lot of hard work to bring this heartwarming little book to the…
Coverage for Tribbs in the Register-Star
I was thrilled to see this story about Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat at HudsonValley360.com, the website for the Register-Star. The Register-Star is the local newspaper in the area of Chatham, New York, where I went to high school in…
Publication Date Set – Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat will be available on 2/20/2020, National Love Your Pet Day
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Writers in the Trenches: Novelist Joan Schweighardt, a “master of historical fiction”
In today’s Writers in the Trenches interview, we tackle a genre we haven’t discussed before in detail – historical fiction. Joan Schweighardt’s new novel, Gifts for the Dead, takes place in the early 20th century in Hoboken, NJ. It’s the…