Parisian Phoenix Publishing

Creating Books that Promote Unique Voices and Diverse Perspectives

Books

Fashion & Fiends Horror Fiction Series

Angel Ackerman. Magic meets high fashion in this series, Ackerman blends urban fantasy, romance and horror into a world where her characters face monsters– and their own demons. Features exotic locations & scenes in the Lehigh Valley and Slate Belt, Pa.

  • Manipulations
  • Courting Apparitions
  • Recovery
  • Not the Quiet French Kid

Contemporary Romance & Comedy

Seneca Blue. Blue penned this contemporary romance before the “rom-com” revolution, originally submitting it to a call for diverse protagonists. Blue wrote about 40-year-old Edna, overweight, who struggles with a dysfunctional family and the gig economy in her dying steel town. She falls in love with the trapper who comes for the skunks in her yard.

  • Trapped

Nostalgic Historical Fiction

Larry Sceurman. With his experience as an oral story-teller and a teacher, Sceurman relays tales of Americana with inner-truths that resonate today. He tackles masculinity and life in blue collar U.S.A. while reminding the reader of the value of roots, family and kindness.

  • The Death of Big Butch
  • Coffee in the Morning, a collection of short stories: fragments of life from dreams, fiction & fantasy

Children’s Books Echo City Capers

Illustrator Joseph Swarctz and writer Ralph Greco, Jr., bring the bumbling baddies of Echo City to life as hero Night Bat protects the town.

Coming soon: Hardcover second edition of Otto the Oak and a new version of the middle grade story Who Turned the Lights Out?!

  • Sometimes I Get… A Book About Emotions
  • Bunnies, Cookies and a Robot! A compilation of three full-length Echo City stories
  • Echo City Capers Jr. Christmas Special

Poetry: Twists Gathered Ephemera

Darrell Parry‘s eclectic collection of poems is now in its second edition, including a poem previously unreleased. Parry’s quirky wisdom delivers messages that might make the reader laugh or cry. Parry is also the editor and founder of Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly.

  • Twists: Gathered Ephemera

Poetry: Out-of-Print Chapbooks

Parisian Phoenix has the honor of serving as distributor for Nancy Scott‘s previously released chapbooks, Leveling the Spin and Hearing the Sunrise. These books are out-of-print and can only be purchased direct from us.

  • Leveling the Spin
  • Hearing the Sunrise

Anthology: Marginalized Voices

Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money, edited by Angel R. Ackerman. This volume explores various non-fiction voices associated with the Lehigh Valley. It tackles experiences of sexual/gender non-heteronormativity, disability, neurodivergence, mental health, body image, ethnic minorities, & more.

Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money

  • Angel R. Ackerman
  • Tammy Burke
  • Tiffani Burnett-Velez
  • Jessica R. Dreistadt
  • Thurston D. Gill
  • Dawn Heinbach
  • Gayle Hendricks
  • Maryann Ignatz
  • Darrell Parry
  • Eva Parry
  • William Prystauk
  • Maryann Riker
  • Nancy Scott
  • Rachel Thompson
  • Heather Pasqualino Weirich
  • Joan Zachary

Memoir: David’s Little Town

Julian Costa, editor, discovered this memoir of growing up in 1950s Galion, Ohio, while doing research on the career of educator David Scott Campbell.

This small volume captures an era of small town, industrial America in Campbell’s own words.

  • David’s Little Town

Nonfiction: Phulasso Spirituality & Self-Defense

Thurston D. Gill Jr. presents his approach to keeping your loved ones safe in an increasingly violent world in this devotional, The Phulasso Devotional: Engineering the Warrior Priest for Dark Times, based in Biblical texts, but designed for all people who want to maintain their spiritual values when faced with hard choices.

Nonfiction/Memoir: Writing Craft

Ralph Greco Jr., a full-time professional writer, has written everything from erotica to SEO copy. In this entertaining volume, he presents his lessons for how to make a writing career work, tells stories about his past, and offers a collection of footnotes and pop culture references to inspire any aspiring author.

  • Writing Dirty Words: The Not-So-Sexy Reality of Making a Living Writing (and the Occasional Crack of a Whip) 

Erotic Anthology: Stories of BDSM, Kink & Fetish

Edited by Angel Ackerman and Ralph Greco Jr., this volume explores various fantasies– from mild to wild, designed to give the reader a safe place to explore consent and sexuality. The contributors include established erotica authors like M. Christian and Dani Brown, established fictional characters in new erotic situations by William Prystauk, and newcomers.

  • Juicy Bits: Erotic Stories of BDSM, Kink & Fetish

Nonfiction: Tarot & Divination

Eva Parry designed this tarot journal, Shuffling & Scribbling: A Journal for Learning Divination Through Tarot, to combine basic Tarot history and process with a series of custom-made charts, lay-outs and journaling pages that allow the reader to follow their own instinctive divination skills and record their success.

  • Shuffling & Scribbling: A Journal for Learning Divination Through Tarot

Memoir: Jewish & Holocaust Studies

Toward the end of his life, nonagenarian Charles Ticho compiled this book of essays about his childhood as a Jew escaping the Holocaust during World War II. Thanks to his youth at the time, and his American mother, he relocated to the United States. This book chronicles his family’s experience during the war, told from the innocent perspective of a child. We also see the family rebuild from nothing and follow Ticho’s career in film production.

  • Stops Along the Way
F. Bean Barker