All Posts by Don Lafferty

Through the serendipity of the Internet and my long friendship with Betsy Otter Thompson, I was able to become the proud owner of three spectacular paintings by artists Catherine Victorson. I don’t know the artist’s name for the three pieces yet, but I’ll let you know when I find out. I’m looking for framing ideas […]

  The Veterans Square Monument will be dedicated this coming Sunday, November 9, 2014. Click here to download all the info you need. The dedication parade will start at 1 p.m. at Edgewood Road and Long Acre Lane, then head west along Edgewood Road to the monument at Veterans Square where the dedication ceremony will […]

Learn the craft of fiction writing from published authors in a daylong writing seminar in Philadelphia. Have a good idea for a novel but don’t know what to do with it? The Mystery Writers of America is offering a low-cost, full-day creative writing seminar in Philadelphia, Saturday, June 28. Our instructors are top published authors […]

Join me this week at the 27th annual Pennwriters Conference in beautiful Lancaster, Pennsylvania where I’ll be teaching Social Media for Beginners, and Advanced Digital Marketing for Writers.  Click here to register!

Facebook ads are one of the most effective ways to accomplish the first step in building customer relationships – discovery. If you’re trying to: Increase Facebook Page likes. Drive traffic to a web page. Promote an event. Promote an offer or a deal. Check out the graph on the right. As soon as we turned […]

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching Online Marketing for Writers at the 26th annual Pennwriters Writers Conference, taking place Thursday, May 16 through Sunday, May 19 at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott in Corapolis, Pennsylvania. Click here to get all the details: Pennwriters 26 Annual Writers Conference

DATE/TIME: Begins Tuesday, February 12; 6:00 to 8:00 pm  Nine 2-hour sessions meeting once per month, plus reserved monthly peer critique group, and a dedicated online group.  FEE: $200.00  FACULTY:  Jonathan Maberry, Keith R.A. DeCandido and Don Lafferty  EXTRAS: Several top magazine and anthology editors will answer questions and provide advice to participants.  LOCATION: The […]

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 20th, I’ll be sharing the latest and greatest tools and tips for writers using social media channels to build their online platform and connect with readers. Here are the details: Who: Brandywine Valley Writers Group Cost: FREE Time: 7:00 PM Where: Ryan’s Pub (upstairs), 124 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA. I […]

The 2012 election cycle has come to its merciful end, but that doesn’t mean our work as concerned citizens is finished. There’s one more thing we can do, and I want to make this as easy as possible for you. If you are as exhausted as I am with the gridlock in government, then let […]