Author: Angel Ackerman

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  We made the Bethlehem Social Calendar

  I was finishing my Google Slides for my presentation September 28 when I received a “Talkwalker” alert in my email that Parisian Phoenix Publishing had appeared on the Lehigh Valley Press social calendar for Bethlehem. They printed a press release from the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group about the workshop…

  17 Sep 2024
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  Updated Events Calendar

  Upcoming events: September 14: Angel Ackerman promoting the Fashion and Fiends series at Mall Rats, the punk vendor fair celebrating the 1990s, hosted by Blue Flame Events at the Palmer Park Mall, Easton, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Did you know? Adelaide Pitney, the supermodel in the horror/dark romance novel Manipulations, was born in 1978? The story takes place in…

  9 Sep 2024
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  Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment

  As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…

  6 Sep 2024
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  The Impromptu Bookshop Tour

  I drove from the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania to Atlanta, Georgia to host a workshop on erotic fiction writing at SexDownSouth in Galleria 2 of the Downtown Hilton at 4 p.m. today. So… this is really happening… I drove the whole distance, my trusted 2015 Jetta turbo and I, and…

  5 Sep 2024
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  Update on Publisher Travels

  Angel Ackerman (yes, that is me) left the Lehigh Valley yesterday for the first leg of her journey to Georgia for SexDownSouth:Atlanta. She used the holiday weekend as an excuse to stop and visit her traveling companion M in Washington, D.C. Travel Day 2 begins tomorrow as Angel heads through…

  2 Sep 2024
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  New Reads in September

  September features TWO new titles from Parisian Phoenix: September 11: Launch of E.H. Jacobs’ debut novel Splintered River, a political drama that imagines what might happen if race relations issues and personal ambitions of people in power go too far… September 25: Sprinkles Did It! a special horizontal, illustration-led story from our Echo City Capers illustrator Joseph Swarctz about…

  29 Aug 2024
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  September & October Workshops with Angel

  September 3-7, SexDownSouth: Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia: I will lead a workshop on exploring your fantasies and writing your own erotica on Thursday, September 5, at 4 p.m. To register for the conference, click here and use the code ANGEL for a discount. (To see my presenter page, click here.) September 22, Greater Lehigh Valley…

  27 Aug 2024
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  Tentative plans for Easton Book Festival 2024

  Larry Sceurman and I, and perhaps Seneca Blue, will share our experiences writing about local settings in a panel for the Easton Book Festival. That panel will be at 2 p.m. Sunday October 20 at the new location of Book and Puppet Company, our favorite local independent bookseller. The three of us all use the Lehigh Valley…

  25 Aug 2024
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  Fashion & Fiends and other updates at Barnes & Noble

  Tomorrow, I will be signing my books at the Bethlehem Township Barnes and Noble store in the Southmont Shopping Center from 1 to 4 p.m. It was a last-minute booking and since that store has been so supportive and features a Parisian Phoenix Publishing table on the sales floor near…

  24 Aug 2024
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  Road Trip (and not the novel)!

  Come September, I will be heading on the road trip of a lifetime. First I intend to visit my dear friend and traveling companion, M, at his home in Washington, D.C. I love visiting D.C., but even more than visiting the city itself, I love hanging out in M’s kitchen…

  19 Aug 2024