Parisian Phoenix Publishing

Hi. Does anybody realize we’re at the end of February already? I mean, I guess I did but I also didn’t.

I have so many small odds and ends going on that it’s hard to focus on what needs to be told to the world. So bear with me as I try to renew the habit of keeping the blog, the Substack newsletter, and all the social medias up-to-date in what I hope appears cohesive strategy.

That may or may not work.

My New Desk

Earlier this week, Eva Parry and I created an office space for me out of a corner of the dining room formerly relegated to the cats and a dog bed. Eva, as usual, contributed her furniture assembly skills and I organized office supplies and filled bookshelves.

My new office is still a work in progress but it feels good, and practical, to not be surrounded by project files at the dining room table. The cats, as cats do, still believe it belongs to them.

Photos include Oz, our 13-year-old tabby/tiger kitten and approximately 5-year-old junkyard dog cat Touch of Grey, a rescue we fostered through Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab. Because Touch of Grey has a distinct temperament, she decided to adopt us. And by her good graces we are still allowed to live in this house.

What is Happening

• TONIGHT, Wayne Sherrer, author of Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of the African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021 has a book signing at Sullivan’s Mercantile, 4:30 to 6 p.m., South Main Street, Phillipsburg, N.J.
• TONIGHT, Echo City Capers will appear at the school book fair event, 5:30 to 8 p.m., at the Barnes and Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa. They will have copies of their new middle grade fiction, super hero chapter book, Who Turned Out the Lights? in addition to all their children’s paperbacks in hardcover.

• TOMORROW, Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group has their monthly board meeting, membership meeting, programming (Dianna Sinovic to speak on revising your work) and workshop. Angel Ackerman serves as president of the group. For more information, GLVWG.org.
• TOMORROW, Wayne Sherrer will appear at the Warren County Library Southwest Branch, 1 to 3 p.m., Stewartsville, N.J. For more information about the library, click here.

• The Mary Meuser Memorial Library in Wilson borough, Pa., will host an informal conversation group with our nostalgic fiction author Larry Sceurman about his books, Coffee in the Morning and The Death of Big Butch. For more information contact Wende at the library or email Angel at angel@parisianphoenix.com.
• February 29: The Emotionally Intelligent Dental Office by endodontist and certified executive coach Dr. Steven Hymovitch officially launches! We’ve received our advance review copies and are anxious to see this part-business, part-dental, all practical psychology book take off!
• And it’s official!!! May 20 (my birthday): the fourth volume of my Fashion and Fiends horror fiction series will release. Road Trip features werewolf Jules Zweigenbaum and his sister on a voyage from Djibouti City, Djibouti, to Chicago, Illinois, to save fashion designer Étienne d’Amille. Part horror novel and part coming of age story, this short book provides an outsider’s view of the supernatural chaos that finds Étienne d’Amille. The book will be available for purchase at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group The Write Stuff Conference April 11-13 in Bethlehem, Pa., with a signing to follow at Blood in the Stacks at the Barnes and Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, May 25.

NORWESCAP also featured Wayne in a Black History Month community spotlight on Youtube: