Author: Angel Ackerman
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Cover Reveal for our RV Living Book
About 20 years ago, I walked into a meeting of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group asking if anyone there had an interest in freelance journalism opportunities. I had recently accepted a position as managing editor of a start-up collection of weekly newspapers, The Lehigh Valley News Group. (There’s barely a trace of…
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Larry Sceurman in Doylestown
Larry Sceurman became an educator in his twenties, a storyteller in his fifties, a writer in his sixties, and a published author of nostalgic fiction and children’s stories in his seventies. He grew up in the Kaywin section of Bethlehem, Pa., in the 1950s and 1960s. In his early teens, he…
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Tonight at A Queer Book Fair
Parisian Phoenix will join Magnus Mateo, The Ice House Literary Arts Committee, The Eastern Pennsylvania Trans Equity Project and FlowerMouth Press for a Queer Book Fair, Tuesday June 10 at Bethlehem’s Ice House on Sand Island. The event will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and feature about 10 queer authors. In support of the committee’s efforts to “expand…
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Poetry in the Wild: Strawberry Moon
The Poetry in the Wild Project on Easton, Pa.’s Stirner Arts Trail has posted a poem by Nancy Scott, “I can’t write because…” as part of their June Strawberry Moon compilation online. Click here to see the current Strawberry Moon poems. The Poetry in the Wild project is seeking more poems, details on how to submit are…
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Cheap books
A recent search on Amazon showed a variety of our books at reduced prices, some cheaper than I can print them. Most of these books are around or under $5 each: Click here for Echo City
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Angel celebrates Steve’s Café at WDVR
WDVR welcomed Angel Ackerman of Parisian Phoenix Publishing, a Lehigh Valley-based small press that published more than 35 books in the last four years, to the station as host for a special one-hour tribute to the Ignatz family and Steve’s Café in Phillipsburg, N.J. The program will air on WDVR…
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A visit to Firefly in Kutztown
Yesterday, my daughter and I made the 45-minute drive to Kutztown, Pa. (which took an hour because of a fatal accident) to meet a writer friend for a coffee and a visit to Firefly Bookstore. Now, I know Firefly is a local favorite, even for those of us in the…
