News & Interviews with M.P. Barker, Author of Historical Fiction

Radio Interviews:

14 August 2017: Interview on Pioneer Valley Radio (Western Mass.) with Bernadette Duncan Harrison

26 March 2014: Radio interview on Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon

9 November 2017: Online interview at Write Angles Conference blog

11 June 2015: Online interview at author Linda Crotta Brennan’s “Lupine Seeds” blog

26 November 2014: Online interview at author Sheila Boneham’s “Writers & Other Animals” blog

26 October 2014: Guest blog on writing and riding at author Sheila Boneham’s “Writers & Other Animals” blog

20 October 2010: Online interview at “Damsels in Regress” blog

2 January 2010: Online interview at author Kathleen Ernst’s “Sites and Stories” blog

2 June 2008: Online interview at author Susan VanHecke’s “Adventures in Authorhood” website

20 May 2008: Online interview about hair, nails, and killer sparkly red shoes to die for at author Laura Bowers’s “Shop Talk” blog

25 Apr 2008: Online interview at author Jessica Burkhart’s “Author. Sparkles. Books.” blog

22 Apr 2008: Guest blog on indentured servitude in the 19th century at “NineteenTeen” blog

18 Apr 2008: Online interview at “NineteenTeen” blog

14-19 Apr 2008: Virtual book launch party for A Difficult Boy at the Class of 2k8 web site
Day One: About the Book
Day Two: About Writing
Day Three: Character Portraits
Day Four: The Face that Got Me My Agent
Day Five: Adventures in Living History at Old Sturbridge Village

14 Apr 2008: Guest blog on cutting a manuscript from 700 pages to 300 at author Darcy Pattison’s “Revision Notes” blog

May 2013: Celebration of Local Novelists event at the Forbes Library in Northampton, Mass. with authors Susan Stinson, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Marianne Banks, and Karen V. Williams

26 Aug 2019: “Storrowton Village keeps history fresh in Aunt Helen’s Garden”: Article in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.) about M. P. Barker’s work in Storrowton Village Museum’s historical gardens

8 Jun 2015: Mending Horses honored as a “Must Read Book” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book

9 Apr 2015: Mending Horses honored as one of Booklist’s Top 10 Historical Fiction Books for Youth

25 Jan 2015: Mending Horses reviewed in The Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.)

7 Nov 2014: “East Longmeadow resident currently writing third novel”: Article about M.P. Barker and Mending Horses in The Reminder (East Longmeadow, Mass.)

22 Oct 2014: “East Longmeadow author Michele P. Barker lives out childhood dream of becoming writer”: Article about M.P. Barker and Mending Horses in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

17 Sep 2014: “Novelist shares new work with historical society”: Article about M.P. Barker and Mending Horses in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

Jul 2014: “The writing life”: Article about M.P. Barker in PRIME magazine

Apr 2014: Mending Horses received a starred review in Booklist

1 Apr 2014: “East Longmeadow author M. P. Barker releases ‘Mending Horses’”: Article about Mending Horses on Masslive.com

15 Feb 2014: Mending Horses received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews

2 Apr 2011: “Why so many women writers in the Pioneer Valley?” M.P. Barker featured in Republican (Springfield, Mass.) article on Pioneer Valley women writers

16 Oct 2008: “Authors band together to help move first novels”: Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.) article about M.P. Barker and Class of 2k8 mini-tour.

24 Jun 2008: “Living history”: A Difficult Boy featured in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.)

18 Jun 2008: “The ‘A’ List”: M.P. Barker interviewed with other Western Mass. authors about their summer reading on Masslive.com

Summer 2008: Profile of M.P. Barker in Elms College Magazine, p. 49 (Chicopee, Mass.)

19 May 2008: “East Longmeadow novelist brings history to life in ‘A Difficult Boy’”: Article about M.P. Barker and A Difficult Boy in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

4 May 2008: “A novel welcoming”: A Difficult Boy mentioned in The Sunday Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

4 May 2008: A Difficult Boy mentioned in the Boston Globe