Author: Angel Ackerman
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Sometimes you can be silly
People often come in and out of other people’s lives. Good friendships can be fluid, picking up where they left off or drifting apart only to reconnect later. Good friendships can form over mistakes, and my connection with Darnell Davis, the co-founder of ASPIRE to Autonomy and host of the…
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The final plug, TOMORROW 10/28: Using Podcasts to Research, Improve and Promote Your Writing
At the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting TOMORROW, after I perform my official duties as president, I will deliver a program and workshop on how podcasts can help your writing. Yes. You read that correctly– using podcasts to RESEARCH what you are writing about, IMPROVE your techniques and PROMOTE what…
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Disability Poetics
Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…
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Parisian Phoenix at Easton Book Festival 2023
Some photos by Joan Zachary Parisian Phoenix Publishing participated in several events at the Easton Book Festival– and we attended as many as we could, trying to snake around the commitments of our own programming. Primarily, we hosted a launch party for our new erotic anthology, Juicy Bits. The Echo…
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Next up: Using Podcasts to Research, Improve & Promote Your Writing
So, now that the Easton Book Festival has wound down, I will be focusing my attention on the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting this week, where after I perform my official duties as president, I will deliver a program and workshop on how podcasts can help your writing. William D. Prystauk*…
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I hope you get married if you’re not already
Today was the final day of the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival and I may end up writing about it for the next couple days– about our experience reading, our experience at the expo, our conversations with each other and with those on our own team. And I will also…
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One More Day
What’s the difference between a book and a blog post? It’s not a joke, but a question presented by Andy Laties of Book & Puppet Company at the Easton Book Festival’s independent academic researchers’ panel Friday night. (The event was very well attended and preceded our Juicy Bits book launch.…
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Parisian Phoenix events at Easton Book Festival
Juicy Bits released last week and can be purchased at all the regular places like Amazon, or Bookshop.org, or you can ask your local bookseller to order it for you from Ingram. We will be hosting a launch party at the Easton Book Festival at Book & Puppet Company on the circle (22 Centre Square) in downtown…
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The evening of Under 1,000 Suns
As one of the publishers involved in the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival, I spend much of the event chaperoning my authors and doing what I need to do as I’ve been asked to do it. This year, I’m making more of an effort to attend more events that I’m…
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Reflections on Writing (and the Easton Book Festival 2023)
It’s cold. At least, for the moment, it’s not damp. I’m struggling with the idea of productivity, balancing the projects I feel like doing with the ones that might seem more important. Harass local media about the upcoming book festival or add more author pages to my web site? Fix…
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