Author: Angel Ackerman

• parisian phoenix author reflection review

  Shedding Light on Dark Realities

  By Geraldine Donaher, author of the upcoming Young Adult novel Mouth Shut Head Down I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These recently. Her writing has a bare-minimum quality that is refreshing to read. Too many words and sometimes a story gets lost. Keegan reveals the horrors of trafficking by…

  2 Aug 2025
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  Amazon Ads update

  I know some people are curious how Amazon Ads are working for Parisian Phoenix. If you don’t know, we got a grant from the Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program in May, which paid out in late June, which gave us $1,000 to spend on Amazon Ads. We are $600 in, and we survived an…

  30 Jul 2025
• coming soon

  New title coming from Larry Sceurman

  Larry Sceurman, who will be part of a special story time at Barnes and Noble to benefit a children’s hospital August 16, has sent the script and illustrations to design for his second children’s book, Frog and Crow’s Conversation. In this fable, Larry explores the process of decision-making. And in this case, Larry decided to draw…

  27 Jul 2025
• coming soon fiction

  Cover Reveal for ‘Any Landing’

  Coming August 28. See the blog series earlier this week for more details.

  22 Jul 2025
• coming soon fiction

  Excerpt from ‘Any Landing You Walk Away From’

  Please enjoy this sneak peak excerpt from Any Landing You Walk Away From… the debut historical fiction novel from Dawn O’Harra. In this novel, she fictionalizes her career as a flight attending during the 1980s when the airline industry was deregulated. The novel will release August 28. In this excerpt,…

  21 Jul 2025
• from the publisher nonfiction parisian phoenix author

  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 3

  No series about the love of travel would be complete without homage to the Great American Road Trip. Motorhome Gypsies: Practical RV Living Advice and Real World Adventures launched officially July 14. If flying isn’t your thing— this is just the book you need to embrace travel on the road. Chock…

  20 Jul 2025
• from the publisher nonfiction review

  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 2

  Early aviation and romance Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote the wonderful illustrated story, The Little Prince, but is also one of the 20th Century’s most daring aviators. He disappeared in flight during World War II. He wrote and he flew, and the two arts fed each other. Before his renowned novella, he…

  19 Jul 2025
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  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 1

  Many people schedule their family vacations for the summer, but I’ve always found family vacations to be expensive and laborious undertakings that require more coordination and efforts than what they yield. I’m more a random road trip kind of person, or travel bare bones with a friend. My favorite traveling…

  18 Jul 2025
• from the publisher review

  Bookstore Review: A visit to C. Simpson

  I have mixed feelings about used book shops. They are often dusty and cause issues with my allergies. They are sometimes disorganized or have vague pricing policies. So, I don’t often stop at random used book shops. But I have seen C. Simpson Used Books in Gilbert, Pa., on Route…

  17 Jul 2025
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  Motorhome Gypsy Luck… Strikes Again

  By Rachel C. Thompson If you read our book, Motorhome Gypsies, you will have seen a good measure of motorhome gypsy luck— good and bad. On a recent trip, we had both kinds. As usual for us, good luck won out.  We wouldn’t be motorhome gypsies if we didn’t have…

  16 Jul 2025