Top Ten List: Why authors should hang out at art festivals and book fairs
By Geraldine Donaher, author of Mouth Shut Head Down Art festivals and book fairs get authors out of their heads, off the computer, and into the messy world of human interaction. I’m not talking about paying a $75 table fee to sell five books. Instead of such high costs, I invest in the lovely, down-to-earth human interactions…
Back to Shool
College Professor Ben Goluboff, one of two poets behind Group Portrait, shared with me that he had a new poem published in the McNeese Review called “Native Lands.” Read that here. This Wednesday, I resume teaching at Northampton Community College in their publishing electives. My course, Pathways to Publication, discusses how to get your work published and how to build up a writing career. The…
FREE ON NETGALLEY
For those of you who review ebooks on NetGalley, we are offering Marilyn Jaye Lewis’ The Curse of our Profound Disorder on that platform through September 13. Grab that ebook here.
New Jersey with Ray
When R. Diskin Black and I discussed promoting his then upcoming poetry memoir, buried under snow in our prospective neighborhoods, I mentioned we could find some new-to-us North Jersey bookstores randomly and make an adventure out of it. He could take the NJ Transit train from New York City, and I could fire up my Volkswagen Jetta…
Exercises in Short Memoir
July 23 is Nancy Scott’s birthday, and we have a tradition of general silliness around birthdays. This year, we read several chapters from Lita Kurth’s small but mighty memoir book, Writing Memoir in Flashes: Creative Ways to Tell Your True Stories, One Memory at a Time. We recommend Writing Memoir in Flashes to writers who struggle with getting started. Nancy writes…
Gayle’s Top 5 Type Designers (before 1950)
Gayle Hendricks is the art director at Parisian Phoenix Publishing. So here we go, chronologically… My Five Favorite Typeface Designers, Before 1950. These are the old white European men that made me fall in love with typography. Trigger warning: Listing Eric Gill in 2026 is problematic. A 1989 biography published by Fiona MacCarthy used his journals as reference,…
Thoughts on Farenheit 451
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to love on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam…” —…
What’s Happening at Parisian Phoenix Kittens
It’s been a wild year for children’s books— with Echo City Capers doing a record number of school visits this year and releasing their “grow into” picture book/middle grade, The Legend of Mister Toots. This book allows families to read together regardless of age levels present. Allison Faye Stein’s sci-fi middle grade 2062: Sally in Spectropia debuted August 1 and is…
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