Welcome to the Peschel Press Newsletter Archive!
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Every month, we send out a newsletter to people who sign up for our newsletter. We tell them about our upcoming and new releases, of course, but we also talk about things we think are important that you might not hear elsewhere. Such as the need for delivery drivers to get commercial auto insurance, or how to be a health advocate for your elderly parents and relatives. These stories are drawn from our lives, so you may find that some of our concerns are yours as well.
Here’s what we’ve published so far. Below we also answer questions!
September 2023: About Kindle Unlimited. Working on “The Complete, Annotated Clouds of Witness,” “International Agatha Christie, She Watched,” and “The Bitch Queen of Atto.”
August 2023: “Escape to HighTower” published!Peschel Press on tour, and advice for authors making public appearances (with a very important rule)!
July 2023: Teresa’s live interview, our events supporting “Agatha Christie, She Watched,” and advice on author photos.
June 2023: Should you sell books at your shows? And if you do, how?
May 2023: Festival season is coming, and how to make friends with your local bookstores (rule 1: buy books from them!)
April 2023: “Agatha Christie, She Watched” published! And news about our upcoming events.
March 2023: News about our upcoming events and the importance of volunteers to them.
February 2023: Our first two events of the year and Teresa’s advice on doing craft shows.
January 2023: News about our upcoming books and events.
November 2022: News about “Escape to HighTower” and “Agatha Christie, She Watched”!
October 2022: Winter Arts Show, Carlisle Harvest Festival and Kensington Books’ Cozy convention!
September 2022: Four events this month!
August 2022: We talk about three events coming up, and publication of “The Vanished Pearls of Orlov!”
July 2022: We are going to a peach festival in Wyoming, Delaware!
June 2022: Our day at the Gaithersburg Book Festival and what we learned.
May 2022: What we did at Malice Domestic 2022 and Hershey Artfest.
April 2022: The end of one life, while life goes on.
March 2022: Trips to Dover, another book sale (expired, you really should sign up for the news letter), and acceptance at Malice Domestic,
February 2022: More health issues, more news on our books, and our (now expired) book sale
January 2022: A relative’s declining health, this year’s appearances, and updates on Brown Suit and Roger Ackroyd.
December 2021: Progress on Brown Suit, Christmas recipes! (Published Dec. 24)
November 2021: The myth of work-life balance, progress on Brown Suit, sale on Flowers (Published Dec. 1)
October 2021: The new kitties
September 2021: Why we’re doing Instagram and Blue Ploermell is coming!
August 2021: Cats! Cats! Cats!
July 2021: More news
June 2021: Latest news about our books
May 2021: Spring in Hershey, book updates, and how to get our signed, personalized books!
April 2021: Follow-up to the medical emergency (good news!), and personal appearances spring up in Hershey.
March 2021: A medical emergency disrupts our plans, but we still publish Career Indie Author Quote Book. Plus an update on future books.
February 2021 Winter hits Hershey hard, but we make s’mores to get by. Unfortunately, we’re reminded that God laughs at our plans.
January 2021: The Complete, Annotated Secret of Chimneys is published, plus our publishing plans for 2021.
December 2020 Cookie recipes! Plus announcement of the Agatha Christie movie project.
November 2020 A call to help finish a Sherlock book (that was answered), and Bill’s adventures with Craig Johnson and Lou Diamond Phillips.
October 2020 More about Career Indie Author and our upcoming books.
September 2020 Career Indie Author is published on time!
August 2020 Teresa appears on “Good Day PA”!
July 2020 Book news; What makes a good character title?
June 2020 A new name; What makes a good book title? News about Odessa’s Mars novels.
May 2020 Contest announcement; Book News; Living by the Pantry Principle.
April 2020 Living in Pandemic Times; The Complete, Annotated Murder on the Links.
March 2020 Reflections on our pet family.
February 2020 Hard deadlines and getting The White Elephant of Panschin into print.
January 2020 Our tentative publishing schedule for 2020 and why we make the decisions we do.
November-December 2019 Car follies, the Whomping Willow, Pennsylvania salvage titles, and what we actually got done when we weren’t wrestling with USAA.
September-October 2019 Why you should lock your car when it’s sitting in your driveway.
July-August 2019 Malice Domestic and what we learned about Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
May-June 2019 Commercial insurance for delivery drivers!
March 2019 Some infections can mimic dementia
December 2018 What we did in 2018 and what we hope to accomplish in 2019.
September 2018 What we got done since the previous newsletter of May 2017.
May 2017 More college preparations, publishing Suburban Stockade, Art on Chocolate and The Essex Serpent.
November 2016 The struggles with getting Ride of My Life finished (note from Teresa: still waiting to be born, folks. 2021 for sure! Or maybe 2022!)
August 2016 Plans and hopes for upcoming books, only two of which actually happened; Suburban Stockade and the 223B Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Great War Parodies and Pastiches 1910-1914.
June 2016 Appearances, planned books, and what Bill was watching and reading.
May 2016 The final volume of our three-book set on William Palmer is released along with an update on Ride of my Life. Other notes about upcoming books and Bill’s taste in media.
April 2016 Publishing two more volumes of the 223B Casebook of Sherlock Holmes series. They are Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches II: 1905-1909 and Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919. Plus, more of William Palmer and Bill’s taste in media.
January 2016 An extremely ambitious book schedule which we didn’t meet.
October 2015 The 223B Baker Street project, William Palmer, Ride of my Life, appearances, and Bill’s media for the month.
November 2015 Getting some of our books into Otto Penzler’s The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City! Plus, what Bill was reading and watching.
September 2015 Change, getting older, where you can find our books and Bill’s appearances.
August 2015 Sherlock Holmes Edwardian Parodies and Pastiches I: 1900-1904. More about possible Mark Twain/Sherlock Holmes stories.
July 2015 Trying to develop good work habits, book signings, and cool books Bill loves.
June 2015 Our very first newsletter ever in which Bill introduces himself and discusses Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and books he likes.
That doesn’t sound very marketable.
True. But we have a need to share, whether it’s stories about famous writers, the best way to run your writing business, and the stories we need to tell rather than what’s popular at the moment.
But you give away books, too, right? Other authors do.
We don’t. Give them away I mean. If there’s a special deal or a discounted book, we’ll tell you (and they’ll end by the time the newsletter is posted here; so subscribe!). But don’t expect free books. We work hard on these books. Some of them have been in production for years. You don’t give away your work, right?
You say it’s a monthly newsletter, but there’s some big gaps in time there.
Our dear founder (that would be Bill) was inconsistent in writing the newsletter. It was another chore and it didn’t get done on a regular basis when so many other, more important things needed to get done, such as actually earning some money to keep us afloat.
I (that would be me, Teresa) took over the newsletter back in late 2018. I was more consistent and managed to produce a newsletter on a bimonthly basis throughout 2019. Towards the end of 2019, I decided to communicate more often with our newsletter subscribers because hey, you are generous enough to subscribe so I need to give you regular content. Thus, you now receive a newsletter on a monthly basis (more or less).
Can I ask you to answer a question in the newsletter?
Sure! We even set up a special email account for you at newsletter (at) this website address. If you have questions about the newsletter or if you want to say anything about our operation, let us know!.
When do you put up old newsletters here?
We put a newsletter up here about a month after they’re published, or when the new one goes out.
Think of it as a little incentive to subscribe so you get the latest news, hot off the press from Peschel Press.
Either way, enjoy this visit to the archives and thanks for coming to our website and thank you for buying and enjoying our books. We’re very proud of them.