Parisian Phoenix Publishing

Parisian Phoenix has the following news to announce:

This weekend, in honor of Arbor Day, Echo City Capers will launch The Ballad of Otto the Oak at the Barnes & Noble in Center Valley, Pa. Author Ralph Greco Jr. and illustrator Joseph Swarctz will be on hand 11 a.m. April 27 to sign books and celebrate this story of a young tree that travels the world hoping to find his roots.

While searching this week for something unrelated, I discovered Sacha Black read my letter on the Rebel Author Podcast last year. For more information about the episode, click here. I had missed the episode when it originally aired because I was in the hospital. If you want to listen to her adorable accent reading the letter, tune in just before minute 9.

Sacha had this to say about our publishing community: “This is an awesome, awesome rebellion. And yeah, look up Parisian Phoenix if you are interested in finding out more about them. I think this is such a cool rebellion, and the fact that you are creating communities and collecting people and helping to bring diverse voices into the world is just fantastic. So I absofuckinglutely love that rebellion. And also thank you for listening.”

— Sacha Black, episode 180, the Rebel Author Podcast

• McKenna Graf’s second poetry chapbook, as she calls it an archive of her work-to-date, will be available for pre-order sometime this week on Amazon. The formal release date is June 21, and the book should be available for pre-order on other platforms in late May or early June.
• Thurston Gill will be offering a free seminar on his Phulasso system of personal protection, 11 a.m. (and again in the afternoon, I believe) May 18 at the Barnes & Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa.Thank you to Gayle Hendricks, our art director, for donating her time to create this image for the Barnes & Noble horror event
• The fourth novel in the Fashion and Fiends series, Road Trip, will officially release May 20 and should be available for pre-order now. Angel Ackerman (yes, that’s me) will be doing her first Barnes & Noble book signing on May 25 as part of Blood in the Stacks, a collection of local horror authors in-store at the Barnes & Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa.
• On May 26, both Parisian Phoenix and Echo City Capers will be participating in the Flemington Book Festival, Flemington, N.J. That will be my first time visiting that event, which includes a massive tent sale of books, books and more books. The event is organized by Act 2 Used Books.