Parisian Phoenix Publishing

• TODAY! At the Hellertown Library at 10:30 a.m. May 31, join oral storyteller and author Larry Sceurman and publisher Angel Ackerman for a short, interactive program on how to transform that story you’ve told for years into print. They will discuss deciding on your audience and format, and offer tips for transforming an oral story into formal writing. Even if you don’t think you’re a writer, this is a great way to preserve your personal and family history. Please pre-register for this free workshop: (610) 838-8381.

• TOMORROW: At 4 p.m. Sunday, June 1, author Hugo Yelagin will host a launch party for his cosmic horror novel, Deadlights, at downtown Easton’s Book and Puppet Company. Hugo’s debut novel, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, blends horror and hope as protagonist Maxwell Corvid faces his family legacy— which is also his nightmare. Reserve your copy of the novel through Book & Puppet here.

• Also June 1, Julian Costa releases his third book with Parisian Phoenix, Coach of the Building, chronicling the career of educator Richard Carty in time for the 25th anniversary of the opening of East Stroudsburg North High School.

LATER

• On June 7, the Echo City Capers duo will be selling and signing books at Moravian Historical Society Arts & Crafts Festival in Nazareth, Pa. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, click here.
• At the Ice House in Bethlehem on June 10, the Queer Book Fair sponsored by the Ice House Literary Arts Committee. Parisian Phoenix will be there highlighting our books by queer authors and talking about publishing opportunities. Details to come!
• On June 14, Larry Sceurman will participate in Local Authors Day at Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pa. Look for more details on that event soon!
• On June 16, McKenna Graf will launch her newest poetry collection, The Depths, the third volume in her archive of adolescence series, with an audiobook releasing on Bandcamp. Print version will be available all the usual places.
• And on June 21, we will join the Pocono Liars Club at the Eastern Monroe Public Library in Stroudsburg, Pa., for their 2025 Author Expo with a theme of END BOOK BANNING. That event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Click here for more information.
• June 24, McKenna Graf will be at the Barnes & Noble on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, 6 to 7:30 p.m., promoting The Depths.
• July 4, the official release of Benjamin Goluboff’s and Mark Luebbers’ poetry chapbook, Group Portrait, a unique interpretation of a photographic portrait in the World War II era from Peggy Guggenheim’s art salon.
• July 9, Larry Sceurman at the Whitehall Library for family storytime, 6 p.m.
• July 14, the official release of Motorhome Gypsies, our RV Living book that is part memoir and part practical advice, by Rachel Thompson and Lisa Cross. We may have a cover reveal soon!
• July 16, 11 a.m., Larry Sceurman at the Cops N Kids Reading Room, south Bethlehem.
• August 16, 11 a.m. Storytime with Larry Sceurman and other local children’s authors at Barnes & Noble Southmont, benefiting the children’s hospital.
• On August 16, I will be hosting a memoir workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. at Blank Space Community Center, 85 Makefield Road Unit 7, Yardley, Pa., 19067. Tickets will be $40 and will include print materials. Details to be announced soon.
• Also in August, the release of Any Landing You Walk Away from is a Good Landing, historical fiction about the airline industry in the throes of 1980’s deregulation. The author of that book is retired flight attendant Dawn O’Harra.