Author: Angel Ackerman

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  Wow, it’s December: Time for the Echo City Christmas Special

  Imagine a modern version of the Grinch, where Santa is just a text message away and the threat to Christmas is not a man covered in tatty green fur but the latest MegaMall. That’s what you’ll find in the Echo City Capers Junior Christmas Special by illustrator Joseph Swarctz and…

  2 Dec 2023
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  More on the visits to Northampton Community College

  Twice this semester, we’ve posted about Parisian Phoenix author visits to Northampton Community College where our talented art director teaches graphic design. One of the coolest– and apparently hardest– classes in the journalism program there is “media publications,” where students learn the basics of graphic design to enable them to…

  1 Dec 2023
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  Engaging in Craft without Leaving Home

  This one is for the writers, the authors, the wordsmiths. Now that winter is upon us, (first real cold snap here in the Northeast and while I used to walk my daughter to school every day, I can’t take the cold now. Gone are the days of walking in -10…

  30 Nov 2023
• events

  Plan your visit to Echo City

  The Echo City creators, Ralph Greco Jr. and Joseph Swarctz, are on the road again–after several successful book store visits and a stop by St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital to distribute some Echo City Holiday Cheer. But don’t let me tell you. Let’s take a look at what Echo City’s favorite…

  29 Nov 2023
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  The Year in Children’s Lit (2023)

  2023 marked Parisian Phoenix’s official entry into children’s lit with the launch of Parisian Phoenix Kittens and the release of the Echo City Capers Jr. hardcover children’s books. Joe and Ralph, our own dynamic duo, have another hardcover planned for 2024, a hardcover update to Otto the Oak. But I…

  28 Nov 2023
• from the publisher reflection review

  From One Extreme to the Other: Recent Placements featuring Parisian Phoenix

  There’s no such thing as bad publicity. And as you may have noticed– we’re not exactly shy over her at the Parisian Phoenix nest. We’ve mentioned our erotic book offerings (and why we published them) and regularly update you as to Ralph Greco Jr.‘s publicity and work on erotic titles.…

  27 Nov 2023
• coming soon from the publisher reflection

  An Amazon.com story: The Good and Bad of Innovation

  In her workshop to the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group last weekend, Laurel Olsen Wenson mentioned her favorite book, Farenheit 451, and added the caveat, “and I’m not a science fiction fan, but that book resonated with me.” We are living in the science fiction world that Ray Bradbury and…

  25 Nov 2023
• from the publisher reflection

  The 2023 Parisian Phoenix Gift Guide

  Hello, all my feathered friends. If you’re in the United States, we had an early Thanksgiving this year. And this weekend is perhaps the most American long weekend one could possibly design— a celebration of gluttony and genocide on yesterday, rampant commercialism and greed on today, and by Monday we’re…

  24 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Christmas Cookies, revisited

  Our nostalgic storyteller Larry Sceurman wrote an essay about people’s favorite Christmas cookies last year, and we thought, since it’s Thanksgiving, we’d revisit it. 2022 Publisher’s Note: Larry Sceurman’s debut novella is a rich, nostalgic view of familiar struggles that remain relevant regardless of the historical date. But Larry Sceurman,…

  23 Nov 2023
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  This is the hill Kirk Cameron wishes to die on: Scholastic vs. Sky Tree

  I don’t think there’s any one of us who does not know the Scholastic School Book Fair. I never realized until my adult life that Scholastic was a book publisher and I thought as a child that they merely loved book so much they gathered them up and brought them…

  22 Nov 2023