Teresa reviews “Agatha and the Truth of Murder” (2018) and enjoyed very much the mix of the real Agatha with a fictional murder case. Fidelity to life: 2½ hatchets A surprising amount of reality mixed into a Christie-esque murder mystery. Quality of movie on its own: 4 hatchets Much better than it had any right […]
Speaking of podcasts (all right, we weren’t, but roll with me), but we had forgotten to announces that Bill speaks with Gabby Allan (aka Misty Simon) on her podcast! Give it a listen!
Teresa Reviews “Murder in Mesopotamia “(2002) and wishes they hadn’t shoehorned Hastings and Princess Rossakoff where they weren’t needed. Fidelity to text: 3 querns Hastings stole Amy Leathern’s lines. Countess Vera Rossakoff showed up from out of the sand but for no discernible reason. Quality of movie on its own: 3 querns A fascinating archeological […]
Teresa Reviews “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002) in the fourth episode of our podcast! Now coming out every Monday. And just a reminder that these reviews are SPOILER HEAVY so don’t listen if you don’t want to know whodunnit! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet Poirot “Murder in Mesopotamia” […]
Teresa Reviews “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) in the third episode of our new podcast! Bill here. Yes, it took me three episodes to let y’all know that we launched at podcast! That’s actually pretty good response time, considering that we watched upwards of 160 movies before realizing we could talk about it! And […]
Bill reviews “Skipping Christmas” (2001) by John Grisham and found in its story of commercialism & societal pressure a Ur-text for Randians. John Grisham, the creator of straight-shooting legal thrillers, is carrying on the thrilling work of Ayn Rand, and he has outdone the master of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” by taking the standard […]
We just heard today that we were accepted for the Middletown Arts and Crafts Fair! It’ll be on Saturday, June 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hoffer Park in Middletown, Pa. We’ll have our complete line of Peschel Press books, and it promises to be a beautiful day, so if you’re in the […]
This essay about Thomas Wolfe’s writers block cure was written for the sequel to “Writers Gone Wild,” “Writers Gone Wilder: The Sequeling” (or whatever it will be). Enjoy! It’s difficult to believe that Thomas Wolfe had writer’s block. This is the man whose first draft of Look Homeward, Angel clocked in at 330,000 words, and […]
Saturday marked the first of what we hope will be many book-related events in Hershey. The Chocolatetown Book Festival took place on the lawn of Hershey Public Library. Thanks to Aly Tran, the library’s book coordinator, authors and book fans got together on a beautiful sunny fall day. We were there, of course, but we […]
Tristan Durie may be on his way to achieving his goal. From the Career Indie Author Quote Book.