Author: Angel Ackerman

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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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Memorial Day weekend events for Book Lovers and Horror fans

  This weekend, as we open the summer season and take a moment to remember those who have given their lives in service to the United States, Parisian Phoenix will be doing what we do: selling books. I suppose it could be said that “doing what we do” is mentoring and…

  24 May 2024
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  TODAY: Go see Thurston for a free emergency preparedness seminar

  Thurston Gill, author of The Phulasso Devotional, will be at Barnes & Noble today in the Southmont Shopping Center offering FREE emergency preparedness seminars. Programming starts at 11 a.m. Thurston shares his inspirations, reflections and spirituality as well as tips for personal safety on his Substack newsletter. Here’s an excerpt…

  18 May 2024
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  Phillipsburg Comic Con

  Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Phillipsburg Comic Con with my children’s book illustrator Joseph Swarctz promoting the Echo City Capers books. Joe trained at the Joe Kubert School in Dover, N.J., which if you are a fan of the comic book scene, you probably recognize as the place where comic book illustrators are born. To me,…

  16 May 2024
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  A night at the movies

  Last night Eva Parry and I attended the public screening of Lafayette College‘s DOC 250, a class on documentary filmmaking that is part of the college’s Film and Media Studies program. The course has one of the longest descriptions in the FAMS catalog: DOC 250/Documentary Storymaking Bridge places students’ original documentary projects at…

  8 May 2024
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  The Mad Lib reality of time (and other tidbits)

  I am due to write my next weekly newsletter on Substack and like many creatives, I have a variety of commitments in the air that I think I have control of but then I realize that a [insert whatever amount of time here] has passed and [something] is not on…

  4 May 2024
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  Otto the Oak launch this weekend and other news

  Parisian Phoenix has the following news to announce: This weekend, in honor of Arbor Day, Echo City Capers will launch The Ballad of Otto the Oak at the Barnes & Noble in Center Valley, Pa. Author Ralph Greco Jr. and illustrator Joseph Swarctz will be on hand 11 a.m. April 27 to sign books and celebrate this story of…

  26 Apr 2024