Author: Angel Ackerman

• events

  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
• fiction new releases

  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
• events fiction from the publisher poetry

  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
• events

  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
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  Barnes signings

  This weekend, Echo City Capers will do a double feature or mini-book tour, depending on your perspective, at two of our local Barnes & Noble stores. On Saturday, 8/17, join them at the Barnes in the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township. On Sunday, our dynamic duo will be at the Lehigh Valley Mall, spending some time at…

  17 Aug 2024
• events poetry Uncategorized

  McKenna Graf at Bernards Township Library

  Yesterday, poet and filmmaker McKenna Graf promoted her sophomore poetry volume, Mortals, Myths and Maybes, at her hometown public library (Bernards Township) in Basking Ridge, N.J. Decked out in a “What’s More Punk Than a Public Library?” t-shirt, McKenna read five poems from the poem and then had a fireless…

  11 Aug 2024
• from the publisher reflection

  Burgers and books

  Yesterday I spoke a little about the synchronicity that happens when you meet people and remember who they are and what they do. Those connections are what makes a small business successful. Connections build awareness, trust and word-of-mouth. The history and the business stuff In about a month, I will…

  10 Aug 2024
• craft tips from the publisher

  The synchronicity of an appearance in Hippocampus Magazine

  As a publisher– and as a personal level as an author– my experiences meeting people often interact and grown in that “six degrees of separation” way. I save a lot of old email. I have a few business card books (which are old-fashioned, I know, but super cute!). I agree…

  9 Aug 2024