Parisian Phoenix Publishing

This weekend launches a fun April for us. Parisian Phoenix has a little bit of everything happening, from a school visit on Thursday to the grand opening celebration of the Blue Flame Retail Store at the Palmer Park Mall in Easton, Pa., and of course, our first official event of National Poetry Month, Poet Pallooza II at the Barnes & Noble at the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa.

Darrell Parry will be featuring there at 3 p.m. and Parisian Phoenix will have a table to discuss with poets (or anyone really) the realities of putting books together and selling them.

Echo City Capers will be at the same Barnes & Noble the next day promoting their lively children’s picture books and their middle-grade fiction novel. They have a new picture book releasing in time for Arbor Day, April 26, The Ballad of Otto the Oak. The official launch of Otto will be at the Barnes & Noble in the Promenade Shops in Center Valley, Pa., on Saturday, April 27.

(Speaking of which, pre-orders of Otto the Oak are already underway.)

Next week is the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group The Write Conference, April 11-13, which features Jonathan Maberry as the keynote this year and one of my favorite authors, Jordan Sonnenblick, as one of the presenters.

At 3:30 p.m. on April 9, Wayne Sherrer will be on-campus at Hackettstown, N.J.,’s Centenary College for a book signing of his Black History book, Phorgotten No More.

The Echo City Capers duo will be at the Pennsylvania School Library Association Conference April 12.

I will be doing more educational visits this April, speaking with author Laurel Wenson’s publishing class at Northampton Community College on April 17 and followed by a portfolio review of the graphic design students of the same school on April 23.