Parisian Phoenix Publishing

Juicy Bits released last week and can be purchased at all the regular places like Amazon, or Bookshop.org, or you can ask your local bookseller to order it for you from Ingram. We will be hosting a launch party at the Easton Book Festival at Book & Puppet Company on the circle (22 Centre Square) in downtown Easton at 10 p.m., Oct. 20.

The event will feature naughty live music from our co-editor and author Ralph Greco Jr., readings and question-and-answer sessions with Ralph, myself, and William Prystauk. The session is designed to explore how writers research and write about sexy things, especially when those scenes may not come from personal experience or within the author’s sexuality. But, with Ralph’s experience with professional erotic writing and participation in adult-themed conventions, Bill’s Kink Noir series that focuses on BDSM (and addresses polyamory and trans relationships) and, well, my unfiltered openness, who knows what or who might end up on the table.

Just a reminder that Parisian Phoenix has lots of family-friendly events at the Easton Book Festival:

• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 11:30 a.m. to 12, ECHO CITY CAPERS illustrator Joe Swarctz (who also did the cover illustration for Juicy Bits) and writer Ralph Greco will present their new children’s Christmas book at Easton Public Library. 

• SATURDAY 12-1 p.m. at Book & Puppet, Darrell Parry author of Parisian Phoenix’s poetry book, Twists: Gathered Ephemera will lead the Stick Figure Poetry Showcase. Nancy Scott will read.
• SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Small Press Expo at Easton Public Market, featuring Parisian Phoenix, Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group members, Collapse Press and other independent/self-published authors.
• SUNDAY 11:15 a.m. to noon at the Small Press Expo in Easton Public Market, Parisian Phoenix will kick off the day’s readings. Opening with a blessing and reflection from our own Thurston Gill and sharing the purpose of his book, Phulasso Devotional: Engineering the Warrior Priest for Dark Times.

We hope Larry Sceurman can join us, as his fiction captures the nostalgia of times and Lehigh Valley past. (Did you know the setting in The Death of Big Butch is based on Fullerton when the Lehigh Valley Mall first opened? And Coffee in the Morning depicts what life was like in Bethlehem fifty to sixty years ago?)

I will be closing our reading with excerpts from my novel series that use Easton as a setting. The villain in Manipulations uses a church in Williams Township, Pa., as a home base to stalk supermodel Adelaide Pitney. Courting Apparitions features the meeting of the “two rivers” and the Delaware-Lehigh Canal system as a magickal setting. (In both novels, Étienne d’Amille has a weekend home in Upper Mount Bethel Township, and businesses in Portland, Pa., play a role in the story.) The end of Courting Apparitions includes a scene in Easton Hospital and what is now Three Mugs Pub in Wilson.

For more of the geography of The Fashion and Fiends series, here’s a Google map.