Author: Angel Ackerman
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Join the celebration (and come buy books) at the Palmer Park Mall
Recently, I committed to a vendor shelf at the Blue Flame Retail Store to display and sell our books. We designed our display this month to highlight our poets in honor of National Poetry Month. This Saturday April 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Blue Flame Events will host its…
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Welcome McKenna
In other poetry month news, we signed a new poet McKenna Graf. She called herself a “future cat lady” so she should fit in around here… one of the criteria for membership in our Parisian Phoenix club is that you either have to love cats OR be allergic to them (or if you are…
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April Showers bring poetry?
This weekend launches a fun April for us. Parisian Phoenix has a little bit of everything happening, from a school visit on Thursday to the grand opening celebration of the Blue Flame Retail Store at the Palmer Park Mall in Easton, Pa., and of course, our first official event of National Poetry Month, Poet…
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Visit us at Blue Flame Events Retail Store
I have had the genuine pleasure of working with Blue Flame Events several times now, and every time I am impressed with the events the company does. Blue Flame has embarked on their latest adventure–a retail store front at the Palmer Park Mall. After seeing how hard they work on…
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Introducing Larry’s Stories on Substack
Yesterday I spent some time with Larry Sceurman, author of The Death of Big Butch and the short story collection Coffee in the Morning. Working with his wife, Barbara, we constructed a basic Substack. Larry’s new Substack newsletter “Larry’s Stories” will feature his philosophical musings from his own life experience,…
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A Monolith Celebration
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending an on-line release party for a new middle grade fiction novel, Monolith, by author Jess Rinker. I have known Jess since high school and we have casually conversed during the last fifteen years about our lives and our creative goals. Her youngest…
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The weekend activities of GLVWGers
This post is not about my publishing company, nor is it about our authors nor myself. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure to attend an online question-and-answer session with award-winning horror author Jonathan Maberry who will be the keynote speaker at The Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group The Write Stuff…
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Some publishing definitions
Definitions used in publishing These definitions are my own. Search these terms and your will find a lot of descriptions. Click here to read a good one from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. I’m debating how to organize this list, as I may go with alphabetical. Part of…
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The community that keeps me going
A simple thank you can go a long way. As a volunteer, an editor and even as a writer, I hear “thank you” many times. Some people believe in cards, or gestures like flowers and gifts, but for me, even the slightest hint of “thank you” in a text or…
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Headshots
Little things mean a lot. That’s the simple way to put it. But sometimes, things don’t have to be fancy to be fancy to be effective. That’s how I feel about headshots. Authors need a polished headshot. It doesn’t need to be elaborate. You don’t even have to get dressed…
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