Parisian Phoenix Publishing

One of the first books we released was a romantic comedy, Trapped, featuring a female main character turning 40, curvy, and struggling to make ends meet in a dying steel town.

The author, Seneca Blue, adored Joan Zachary’s photographs of the residents of Plastiqueville (if you don’t know them, you can visit Joan’s Substack newsletter here.)

For our Book Lovers Celebration at Barnes & Noble this weekend, we decided to rerelease the book with even more photographs, in full-color, and we added a watercolor painting to the cover (by Rachel Thomspon) featuring the skunks that inspire our whole story.

The new books arrived into my hands yesterday.

So we’ll have copies of many of our books, ordering information for titles not in store, and events for our BOOK LOVERS’ CELEBRATION at Barnes & Noble, Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township. Saturday, July 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

We will have multiple authors on hand to sign books and Barnes & Noble has multiple Parisian Phoenix books from multiple genres in stock.

Schedule for Book Lovers’ Celebration

11:30 a.m. Julian Costa, will talk about his research and his interest in academic figures. Julian has two titles with Parisian Phoenix, David’s Little Town and The Audio Visual Teacher.

1 p.m. Poetry with McKenna Graf, Darrell Parry and Nancy Scott. This will be McKenna’s first public reading from her collection, Myths, Mortals and Maybes, which launched in June. She’s a filmmaker and a student at Lafayette College. She uses poetry and film to capture emotions and moments in time. Darrell has his poetry collection in stock at Barnes— Twists: Gathered Ephemera was the first Parisian Phoenix title carried in stock at the Bethlehem Barnes. Nancy has her own poetry chapbook and her poetry and essays are included in Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money, Parisian Phoenix’s marginalized voices nonfiction anthology. In that book, Nan shares some of her experience as a blind person.

2 p.m. Children’s Storytime with Echo City Capers. The Bethlehem Barnes keeps most of the Echo City Capers Jr. picture books in stock and has copies of the middle grade title Who Turned the Light Out? Ralph and Joe will be signing books and hosting storytime and you may even get a sneak preview of their new graphic novel, A Curious Compilation of Bumbling Baddies, which debuts July 30.

2:30 p.m. storytelling with Larry Sceurman. Larry is an oral storyteller who has started compiling his nostalgic stories with nuggets of truth from his life here in the Lehigh Valley. He currently has two books, The Death of Big Butch and Coffee in the Morning. If you want to learn more about Larry, his Substack is here.

3 p.m. Emergency Preparedness Seminar with Thurston Gill. Thurston is the author of The Phulasso Devotional: Engineering the Warrior Priest for Dark Times. Thurston has practical experience in security, ministry and counseling and brings all of that together to prepare people for whatever uncertainty may come their way. And Thurston also has a Substack newsletter (click here).

And meanwhile, I will be on hand to sign copies of my Fashion and Fiends horror novels. In these stories of relationships and supernatural challenges, you never know what will go bump in the night— is it a threat or a lover?

We’ll have a slew of authors to network with and ask questions of (and editors, designers, illustrators, poets, college students, and college professors), so stop by and enjoy one of our talks or just stop by to talk.