Author: Angel Ackerman

• events

  Workshops/Opportunities for Writers

  Our other upcoming events include Joseph Swarctz at the newly-reopened Barnes & Noble at the Lehigh Valley Mall, McKenna Graf speaking at her local public library at 12:30 p.m. on August 10 (Bernards Township Library, click here to register), and in September I will be attending Sex Down South in Atlanta where I will be hosting a…

  7 Jul 2024
• coming soon events

  Book Lovers’ Celebration at Barnes & Noble July 20

  Parisian Phoenix Publishing will have a lot of new titles available at Barnes & Noble on July 20. This is our lineup so far: PLUS, we’re working against the clock to release the updated version of our romantic-comedy Trapped: What if Skunks were Matchmakers with full-color photographs of the residents of Plastiqueville by Joan…

  6 Jul 2024
• from the publisher

  Printing and Frakturs at the Ephrata Cloister

  Art Director Gayle Hendricks and I visited the Ephrata Cloister yesterday, after a volkssport walk through the town. The Cloister is known for its religious discipline, its colonial roots, and its history of printing and calligraphy. Gayle has a love of all things printing and type. And the Cloister has…

  29 Jun 2024
• new releases parisian phoenix author poetry

  Mortals, Myths and Maybes releases tomorrow

  Earlier this week, I headed to the Post Office, one of the less glamorous jobs I have to do, to mail custom bookmarks and our Parisian Phoenix bookmarks to McKenna Graf who plans to stuff publicity boxes for her poetry collection Mortals, Myths and Maybes which launches TOMORROW. When people ask me about the…

  20 Jun 2024
• events from the publisher Uncategorized

  Errand Day at Parisian Phoenix

  I spend most of my day typing. Or reading. It’s the second day of a heat wave so I thought today would be the day to take care of some time sensitive errands. My errands are fun, aren’t they?

  18 Jun 2024
• parisian phoenix staff reflection

  A record of the ERA

  We all have subjects that spur passion within us. We all have hobbies. Parisian Phoenix’s art director Gayle Hendricks has always been keenly interested in and a defender of women’s rights, ecology and the environment, the arts, and good type. Gayle lives in her childhood home. Like many people who…

  15 Jun 2024
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  This week and beyond…

  Excerpted from this week’s Substack newsletter EXCITING NEWS: We finally signed a contract with Edward Jacobs for his debut novel that we hope to release before the presidential election in November. I guess it’s a political thriller, exploring race relations and what happens if movements grow too extreme… More on that as we…

  13 Jun 2024
• from the publisher

  Waiting for my rhubarb cake

  An excerpt from today’s Substack newsletter A few weeks ago my art director and I visited Dave & Buster’s for my birthday. I suggested the arcade when Gayle said we needed to do something fun and as a small business owner, I don’t pursue a lot of that. Nose to the grindstone…

  9 Jun 2024
• from the publisher news

  A visit to Downtown Easton

  If you follow my adventures as an individual on AngelAckerman.com, this post will share similarities to one also posted there, or as the case may be, here. I have had a love affair with Easton since the late 1990’s– it was home to my first apartment. Darrell Parry and I…

  31 May 2024
• events fiction

  Weekend Wrap Up

  On Saturday, I had the pleasure of participating in Blood in the Stacks at the Barnes & Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa. Six horror authors from Pennsylvania and New Jersey were on hand to sign their horror books: I sold multiple copies of books one, two,…

  27 May 2024