Author: Angel Ackerman

• coming soon from the publisher new releases news

  2025 Production Schedule announced

  From Parisian Phoenix Kink In Control? the short, kinky, otherworldly erotic fiction of M.Christian (Dec. 15) Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know, a nonfiction collection of essays from Ralph Greco Jr. & M.Christian (Feb. 14) Brushes, an erotic romance from M.Christian (March) (fiction) Any Landing You Walk Away From… Is a Good Landing, debut…

  27 Nov 2024
• from the publisher parisian phoenix author parisian phoenix staff reflection

  SAFETY & SECURITY WHILE TRAVELING SOLO

  A Useful Dozen List for the Prepared Traveler By Angel R. Ackerman and Thurston D. Gill Jr. Angel’s introductory note: When I went to Sex Down South in Atlanta in early September, I drove the whole trip alone. I hadn’t traveled alone in 25 years, except for the occasional trip…

  12 Nov 2024
• review Uncategorized

  Journalism Movies: Spotlight

  The other day, something prompted me to think about journalism movies– I’m not sure what it was and I’m pretty sure it was something at the Museum of Printing that spurred the interest. As a Michael Keaton fan The Paper immediately popped into mind as one of my favorites. Another…

  9 Nov 2024
• events poetry

  Finding some relief and reunification after the election

  Poetic Relief at Book & Puppet November 14 I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that maybe poetry offers the outlet and the hope we all deserve. In November, Noble Quills at Book & Puppet Company, the independent bookstore in downtown Easton, will feature McKenna Graf and Darrell Parry. That event is November 14,…

  8 Nov 2024
• 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