Parisian Phoenix Publishing

July 22, 2023: Come visit at Lehigh Valley Disability Pride, where several contributors will be reading their selections from our book, Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money. Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus, 2809 Saucon Valley Rd, Center Valley, Pa. 18034. It’s a short day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

July 26, 2023: As one of my first official duties as the newly minted president of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, I will be participating (with Parisian Phoenix author Larry Sceurman and anthology contributor Rachel Thompson) in the Battle of the Books, a game show style competition of literature, at Parkland Community Library. The event begins at 6 p.m.

August 22, 2023: Since we had so much fun at the Third Annual Shop N Stroll with Your Pup at Wind Gap Park benefiting Slate Belt Rising, and organized by Blue Flame Events, Joe Swarctz of Echo City Capers asked me to reserve a spot at Delaware Riverfest in Portland, Pa., which is the closest thing I have to a “hometown” as I grew up in rural Upper Mount Bethel Township four miles outside of “town.” We’ll be selling books, but we also hope to do a launch event for Eva Parry‘s tarot journal, Shuffling & Scribbling: A Journal for Learning Divination through Tarot where we will be doing introductory exercises in tarot reading. My first book, Manipulations, opens with a chapter in Portland.

October 19-22, 2023: Organizers of The Easton Book Festival recently opened the call for proposals for the 2023 festival, scheduled for October 19-22. Darrell Parry, the poet behind Twists: Gathered Ephemera, has served on the board of the festival for several years. Parisian Phoenix will be submitting proposals and regardless of whether or not our authors are chosen to present at the event, we will be supporting the festival in whatever way we can. The festival is sponsored by Lafayette College and put together by the great minds at Book and Puppet Company.

October 21, 2023: For its October member programming, Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group invited Angel Ackerman (me) and William Prystauk to speak to the group about using podcasts to promote your writing. The morning presentation, from 11 a.m. to noon, will feature an interactive discussion on how to find podcasts and how you can use them— for writing advice, for research and for promotion. The afternoon workshop (free for members, $15 for non-members). Visitors may attend up to three “morning meetings” free.

The afternoon workshop will be coaching on how to. be a good podcast guest and will include Bill’s experience as host of the top-ranked-by-Entertainment Weekly horror podcast, The Last Knock.