Irish Echo is the largest circulated Irish American weekly newspaper with a 50-state subscription base, was founded in 1928 and is a national tabloid found on newsstands in major American cities every Wednesday.
In their August 4-10 newspaper edition, Irish Echo published an article titled, “Some Summer Reading” where they made some suggestions for books to [...]

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I am pleased to announce that Irish America magazine, founded in 1985 by Niall O’Dowd and Patricia Harty and the bestselling Irish magazine in the U.S. with over 100,000 subscribers, has provided a terrific review of Wise Words & Witty Expressions in their April/May edition.
This is a big moment in the life of Wise Words [...]

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On Sunday, February 28, the Star Ledger published an article titled, “Five new books from New Jersey authors” featuring “Wise Words & Witty Expressions” as one of the five.
The Star Ledger provided a terrific explanation about my background growing up in an Irish-Catholic household, what compelled me to write the book and the significance these [...]

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The below review was recently posted on Amazon.
This is a great little book that found its way into my life. I’m sure many of us have heard expressions from our parents or grandparents that when we were young either didn’t make any sense or were over our heads. However, there was so much truth in [...]

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Teenagers are an extremely difficult audience to satisfy, so you can only imagine how pleased I was to hear that my colleague gave her 15 year old son “Wise Words & Witty Expressions” and that he thoroughly enjoyed it. So much in fact, he gave it to his friends to read who also enjoyed [...]

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The below review of Wise Words & Witty Expressions was recently posted on Amazon.
“We’re living in a time when life seems sad, dark, cold and lonely. However, this brilliant little book has come along to give hope to the hopeless, peace to the burdened, as well as turn several frowns upside down. The sayings are [...]

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When I was writing “Wise Words & Witty Expressions” and was ready to speak with a publisher about getting my manuscript published, I reached out to my fellow Association for Women in Communications (AWC) members for help in determining just how to go about that.
Through the AWC network, I found my publisher Woodpecker Press, a [...]

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As a member of the national organization, the Association for Women in Communications, I had the opportunity to recently attend their annual conference in Seattle. The conference allows women in various communication roles to network and help each other stay abreast of the best and most current ways to distribute messages. While attending the [...]

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I officially launched “Wise Words & Witty Expressions” on September 27 and the feedback I have received from the book has been overwhelmingly positive. Two readers told me that they laughed and cried reading the book. Many people have told me that they can relate to the wisdom contained in the book and [...]

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