I’ll be attending the annual West Virginia Writers 2019 Summer Conference  June 7-9, 2019, at Cedar Lakes Conference Center in Ripley, WV and will be giving the following presentations there:

Next weekend, March 2 and 3, will be a wonderful opportunity for writers in the Huntington, WV area to acquire some valuable lessons from some of our top-flight local authors. Support everyone’s effort in making this happen by signing up for it NOW and sending a check for $45 to:

Publishers Place
821 4th Avenue-Suite 201
Huntington WV 25701.

Gave my talk on Self-Publishing Your Book for $0 again, this time at the library in Ironton, OH on the evening of Jan 17. Had an interesting connector issue and ended up having to directly connect my cable to the ceiling mounted projector. Thus, the strange set up with my computer sitting on a chair on top of a table. Nevertheless, the presentation went on successfully.

I’ll be giving this FREE presentation in Ironton, OH on Thursday, January 17. If you’re interested in getting a book published without spending a lot of time and/or money in the process, I think you’ll find this information quite valuable.

Due to a variety of what I think are good reasons, including its entry into an award contest, I’ve decided not to release “HPD” this year. Of course, this will give me more time to fiddle with it and hopefully make it even better, thus benefiting my faithful readers. Sorry everyone, but it now looks like it will be released around May of 2019.

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I’ll be at this event, and even doing a reading from my upcoming novel, “HPD”. Hope to see you there!

This past weekend we had a 3rd birthday party for our granddaughter Evie (the little girl with the birthday cake shirt) at a local bowling alley. While there we got a chance to get a group photo taken of many of the members of my family. The lady on my left is my wife Gloria. So here’s a chance for you to see what my family looks like!

On the evening of October 30, I gave a presentation on “Self Publishing Your Work for $0” at the main branch of the Cabell County Public Library in Huntington, WV. Following are a few pictures from it.

The initial audience. More people showed up after this picture was taken and we ended up with 19 attendees. That was a much better crowd than I had expected!

That’s me with my little remote in hand and one of the first slides of the presentation up on the screen. I’m proudly wearing my WV Book Festival shirt. I attended it during the previous weekend and signed books there.

A live action shot after the lights had been dimmed for better viewing of the presentation. By the way, I got to the library 1-1/2 hour early just to make sure there wouldn’t be any technical difficulties with hooking up my computer to their AV gear. Thankfully, I didn’t encounter any problems.

 

Join me and other local authors at Marshall University’s Drinko Library Atrium on Oct. 23 (4-6p) for a panel discussion on NaNoWriMo! There you’ll get tips on how to write a 50K word novel in a single month.

Here’s a link to my radio interview on WOUB in Athens, OH: https://soundcloud.com/woubdig…/180921-michael-connick-edit…

“In today’s Author’s Chair, Michael Connick discusses his first book Trapped in a Hall of Mirrors: How the Luckiest Man in the World Became a Spy, published in 2016. It’s the first of a trilogy of Cold War spy novels based on his true experiences working with U.S intelligence agencies. Connick, who is from Huntington, WV, will release a new novel this fall based on the Huntington Police Department.”