Author: Angel Ackerman

• reflection review

  On bookstores and Bibles

  If you are a regular around here, you may know that Gayle Hendricks and I went to Massachusetts November 2 so that we could visit the museum of printing. We also visited Mystic, Connecticut; Andover, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; and New Haven, Connecticut. Bookstores E.H. Jacobs held his book launch for…

  6 Nov 2024
• parisian phoenix staff review

  Museum of Printing

  I did not anticipate that it would be so hard to write about my visit to the museum of printing. I did not expect to rave about the Museum of Printing. Printing, and the history of, is a fairly eclectic interest. I knew I would not be bored at the…

  5 Nov 2024
• nonfiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Nancy Scott sharing our anthology with Magnets & Ladders

  Last year, Parisian Phoenix tabled at an event with Disability Pride PA at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Nancy Scott wrote about the experience and created an essay of writing prompts that appeared in the current issue of Magnets and Ladders. Magnets and Ladders is a disability-themed publication. You can read…

  4 Nov 2024
• parisian phoenix staff review

  Good graphic design in Mystic, Conn.

  Yesterday, art director Gayle Hendricks and I headed to Massachusetts so we could visit the Museum of Printing, which is only open Saturdays, and near the home of author E.H. Jacobs. We planned one stop on the way up– in Mystic, Connecticut– and had a room booked at the Doubletree…

  2 Nov 2024
• reflection

  A journalistic pre-election perspective

  I received my first official paycheck from a newspaper while still in high school. A small local sports-themed weekly wanted to expand into a community “good news” weekly and asked me to write one feature a week to make this happen. This was in the early 1990’s and I want…

  30 Oct 2024
• events fiction

  Wine and a ghost story…

  Bill Prystauk and I will be headed to Cellar Beast Winehouse in Andrees on November 15 for what might be the most unusual book event ever… We will be joining J.Z. Nieves and Liz Rosen reading our various horror-adjacent works. And the sommelier at Cellar Beast will be pairing wines…

  29 Oct 2024
• events

  Join me for NaNoWriMo at Easton Public Library

  November is National Novel Writing Month, where ambitious writers try to write an entire novel in a month. To celebrate, Easton Area Public Library is hosting some  FREE public writing-themed events:

  26 Oct 2024
• events reflection

  Arts & Crafts & Words

  The fourth week of the month is always hairy for me because my local public library’s board meets, of which I am vice president, and my local writers’ group meets, and of that I am president. Plus, if you’re like me, the mundane items like bills and finances seem to…

  26 Oct 2024
• events

  Update on Echo City

  Echo City Capers will be at the Barnes & Noble at Lehigh Valley Mall on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you miss them this weekend, they have plans to be at the 26th Annual Easton High School craft fair November 2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event supports the…

  25 Oct 2024
• from the publisher reflection

  Resources for Writers

  I recently had someone mention to me that its hard to find resources for beginning writers, or writers who don’t have experience seeking out opportunities. It’s a skill that writers and authors develop over time— finding resources. If I had to make a recommendation on the fly, here are some…

  24 Oct 2024