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
Guest Blogs & Online Interviews:
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
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News Features & Articles:
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.)
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: Mending Horses reviewed in School Library Journal
15 Feb 2014: Mending Horses received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews
Feb/Mar 2009: A Difficult Boy recommended in Reading Horizons’ “Books that Especially Appeal to Boy Readers” article
Nov 2008: A Difficult Boy reviewed in Historical Novel Review
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.)
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
28 Apr 2008: A Difficult Boy reviewed in Publishers Weekly