Books are presented in a rough quasi-topical order
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
- Road Trip
- Prequel Novelette: 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. 40-year-old Edna, overweight, 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 (pocket edition)
- Trapped: What If Skunks Were Matchmakers? (full color edition)
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
- Bookworm’s Magical Journey (a dyslexia-friendly picture book about learning to read)
Nonfiction: Christian Emergency Preparedness
In this ever-increasingly chaotic world, security professional and ordained minister, Thurston D. Gill Jr. offers this Biblical-based guide on how to protect yourself and your family and remain an ethical human.
- The Phulasso Devotional: Engineering the Warrior Priest for Dark Times
Nonfiction: Tarot journal
Eva Parry designed this journal to allow exploration of the intuitive way to learn to read tarot cards.
- Shuffling & Scribbling: A Journal for Learning Divination through Tarot
Memoir: Holocaust
Nonagenarian Charles Ticho produced this collection of essays about his life as a child during the Holocaust and how his family rebuilt their lives in the United States.
- Stops along the Way
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
Poetry: Archive of Adolescence
Filmmaker and poet McKenna Graf chose to “archive” her adolescence in an annual series of full-length poetry manuscripts, creating a record of her years at Lafayette College.
- Mortals, Myths, and Maybes
- The Depths
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
Educator David Scott Campbell wrote this memoir, discovered posthumously by Julian Costa, editor. It features Campbell’s experiences growing up in 1950s Galion, Ohio.
This small volume captures an era of small town, industrial America in Campbell’s own words.
- David’s Little Town
Erotica: M.Christian
Versatile author M.Christian reissued his classic kinky, short story collection In Control with Parisian Phoenix, in late 2024, bringing some of these erotic tales into print for the first time.
- In Control: The Short, Kinky, Otherworldly Fiction of M.Christian
- Brushes
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: Pedagogy & Biography
Julian Costa researches and preserves the career history of educators. His comprehensive exploration of these figures provides a historical and philosophical record of trends in education.
- The Audio Visual Teacher (Hamilton Lee, communications, East Stroudsburg University)
- Coach of the Building (chronicling the opening of East Stroudsburg North High School)
Nonfiction/Memoir: Business, Leadership & Emotional Intelligence
In this book, Dr. Steven Hymovitch studied how he made his multi-office endodontic practice successful and compiled those answers into a compact volume that offers applications of emotional intelligence in a business setting.
- The Emotionally Intelligent Dental Office
Nonfiction: Sex
In this book, Ralph Greco, Jr. and M.Christian present a series of about two dozen essays on various sexual topics. From how to talk to your partner to how to touch your partner, this books provides a healthy starting point for people to explore new territory.
- Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
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
- Who Turned Out the Lights?
- The Adventures of Otto the Oak
- Graphic Novel: A Curious Compilation of Bumbling Baddies
- Sprinkles Did It!
Fiction: Political Drama
This debut novel by E.H. Jacobs takes the aftermath of a police shooting– where a white cop shoots a young Black man holding a hot dog– and imagines what would happen if political aspirations and larger-than-life personalities divide the country.
- Splintered River
Nonfiction: Black History
Local historian Wayne Sherrer compiled definitive original research on the African-American history of Phillipsburg, N.J., and compiled Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of the African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, N.J. 1777-2001.
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