Author: Angel Ackerman

• events poetry

  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…

  8 Jun 2025
• events parisian phoenix author

  Deadlights Launch Party

  On Sunday, June 1, I attended a really fun book launch for Deadlights by Hugo Yelagin at one of my favorite bookstores, Book and Puppet in downtown Easton. Hugo’s debut novel released in April, but as a high school student (and as a procrastinator as he put it) he delayed his official party until now. He…

  7 Jun 2025
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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

  7 Jun 2025
• events news

  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…

  6 Jun 2025
• coming soon from the publisher news parisian phoenix author

  Keeping Teens Safe

  As I mentioned recently, I recently accepted Geraldine Donaher’s manuscript, Mouth Shut Head Down specifically because of all the reasons other publishers have rejected it. Geraldine wanted to create a young adult novel that would call attention to sex trafficking and help protect teenagers from traffickers who often enter their lives as “romeos.” The…

  5 Jun 2025
• from the publisher review

  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…

  4 Jun 2025
• review

  Free writers resources

  I budget a regular amount of time to read other people’s newsletters, download their reader magnets and attend free webinars. As a member of Behind Our Eyes, the email-based writing group for people with disabilities, I receive information from other writers about resources and opportunities. Clenell Anthony, the author of the romantic thriller Fractured (which I…

  3 Jun 2025
• coming soon new releases nonfiction

  Coach of the Building by Julian Costa

  High School. Adolescence. Our formative years. Regardless of your high school experience— good, bad, indifferent; athletic or academic; rural or urban; etc.— these teenaged years play a huge role in making us who were are today. My journalism career traces its roots to my seventh, eighth and ninth grade years…

  1 Jun 2025
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  31 May 2025
• from the publisher reflection

  He will always be my princess

  In late fall 2019, my neighbor discovered that a stray cat in the neighborhood had crawled under her porch and given birth to kittens. My daughter set out to trap them, and we fairly quickly brought home the runt. It was Christmas season and the Judi Dench version of Cats was in…

  30 May 2025