Parisian Phoenix Publishing

I have read so many manuscripts in the last six weeks. We released M.Christian’s In Control, a collection of erotic short stories. After I finish this newsletter, I will be doing a final pass on Christian’s and Ralph Greco Jr.’s manuscript, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know. This nonfiction collection of essays will release in February, hopefully in time for Valentine’s Day. And following that, we will release M.Christian’s erotic romance novel, Brushes.

I recently proofread Dianna Sinovic’s debut supernatural thriller, Scream of the Silent Sun, also due out in March. The interior of the book has been designed and proofed, and we’re still deciding on cover concepts. The book focuses on a supernatural tattoo, and we’re hoping to give that tattoo justice on the cover.

Here’s Dianna’s draft of her back cover summary for Scream of the Silent Sun:

Quinn Thomas’ brother has been missing for a decade when she’s mysteriously drawn to a cache of his letters, hidden away in her parents’ attic. Parker has never forgotten her. But where is he? And why, given the empathic abilities that used to connect them, has she felt no spark from him after all these years?

Tucked inside one of Parker’s letters is a vivid drawing of the sun. Quinn is shocked when the emblem inks itself onto her arm, creating a guide that seems to be trying to tell her where her brother may be.

With their mother’s cancer diagnosis creating a deadline, Quinn is determined to bring her brother home, but the seething sun tattoo and his flickering image seem to warn her that he’s in grave danger. Will she find Parker in time to save him?

And I also did an editorial round on debut author Dawn O’Harra’s novel Any Landing You Walk Away from is a Good Landing, which will release in August. This charming book follows a flight attendant through the first five years of her career in the early eighties after airline deregulation. With a hint of romance and the benefit of the author’s real-life experience in the industry, this book is the perfect fiction for travelers and airline aficionados. I know I’ll be sending a copy to my traveling companion!

Speaking of traveling, I read the working draft of Motor Home Gypsies, the part how-to, part memoir book by Rachel Thompson and Lisa Cross. This book is slated for a July release and provides practical advice on the RV lifestyle with a plethora of firsthand stories gathered by the authors in the ten years they’ve called a rig their home.

And I think that only leaves Coach of the Building by Julian Costa… I edited Julian’s manuscript for him (scheduled for release in early June so we could get a head start on layout. This is Julian’s third book with Parisian Phoenix. He researches and writes in-depth career histories of educators. In Coach of the Building, Julian turns his attention to an educator and coach with quite the legacy in the Pocono region of Pennsylvania.

From the back of the book, Coach of the Building:

Coach of the Building chronicles the career of Richard Carty, an educator in Pennsylvania whose three decades in education included coaching, serving as a school disciplinarian, planning and facilitating the opening of a new high school, and later transitioning into the elementary school level during the onslaught of the No Child Left Behind Act. Amid rapid population growth and technological progress, Carty successfully established a community, empowering students to create a respectable new culture.

Drawing from interviews with former colleagues, alumni, and parents, this book provides a portrait of leadership, effective communication, and innovation.

Another writer, and another joy to work with, is Hugo Yelagin whose cosmic horror Deadlights should debut in late March, early April. This manuscript plays with everything Lovecraft and lives to tell the tale.