Parisian Phoenix Publishing

For those of you still considering joining me for a hands-on workshop, the three-hour memoir workshop at Blank Slate Community Center in Yardley, Pa., is two weeks away. The workshop is $40 but includes materials, instruction, and a memoir or memoir-adjacent book of your choice from the Parisian Phoenix bookshelves.

These titles include:

• David’s Little Town by David Scott Campbell, an unfinished memoir published posthumously about growing up in a small industrial town in Ohio in the 1950s and 1960s
• Mortals, Myths and Maybes by McKenna Graf, a book of poetry compiled during her sophomore year of college. (I hope to have her junior year collection, The Depths, back in stock before the event. The remaining copies I had went to Lafayette College Store yesterday.)
• The Emotionally Intelligent Dental Office by Dr. Steven Hymovitch, a successful endodontist who has studied emotional intelligence and runs a leadership center in Arizona with his therapist wife. The book includes business advice, but Steve discusses what happens in his own offices and his own career.
• Twists by Darrell Parry, one of the first books published by Parisian Phoenix, a quirky, humorous collection of poetry that makes you examine your own life.
• The Death of Big Butch by Larry Sceurman, a novella about a twenty-something young man in 1974, facing decisions about what his values in life and what it means to be a friend and a father.
• Motorhome Gypsies by Rachel Thompson and Lisa Cross, part memoir, part how-to and part travelogue with practical advice for RV living.
• Stops Along the Way by Charles Ticho, a book of essays about his experience in the Holocaust and resettling in America with his family.

• Order tickets here.

I believe we all have a story to tell. Sometimes it’s our personal story. Sometimes it’s a family story. Sometimes it’s a fiction story that reinforces a theme or our values. But we all live in story. Most of the time, it’s fear that keeps us from sharing that story.

For every one of you who thinks you can’t write— you can. You might not be a novelist. You might not have eloquent prose. But I promise that you have the ability to record your story.

I promise.

And if you can’t make the workshop, remember paid subscribers get access to the slide deck after the event.