What’s New

Author at Gettysburg show 2017
Author M.A. Shafer staffing the American Digger magazine table with friend and fellow digger Frankie Buonnano of New Jersey.

Here’s what’s new for the author of Metal Detecting for Beginners: 101 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started, and author M.A. Shafer.

October, 2017 – Metal Detecting for Beginners: 101 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started author M.A. Shafer staffed the American Digger magazine table at this year’s Gettysburg Civil War & Militaria Show. There, she represented the magazine, for which she is a regular editorial contributor and serves as Marketing Assistant, as well as selling and signing copies of her books. She also spoke briefly about her book to a packed house at the annual meeting of the Federation of Metal Detector & Archaeological Clubs, Inc. (FMDAC).

Metal Detecting for Beginners -White's Cover Version

October, 2016 – White’s Electronics has licensed a custom version of Metal Detecting for Beginners: 101 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started. The book can be purchased directly from White’s at their website—either alone or in one of several equipment packages—and from retailers wherever White’s metal detectors are sold.

Author M.A. Shafer gearing up for the Digging in PA group hunt.
Author M.A. Shafer gearing up for the 2016 Digging in PA group hunt.

April 15, 2016 – Author M.A. Shafer attended the Digging In PA group hunt in Warminster, Pennsylvania, where she launched her new QuickStart Guide, Metal Detecting for Beginners: 101 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started. The book was well-received both by metal detectorists themselves and by American Digger magazine, whose publisher, Butch Holcombe, shared lunch with Ms. Shafer and Mark Schuessler, president of the Federation of Metal Detector & Archaeological Clubs, Inc. (FMDAC).