Author: Angel Ackerman
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Thoughts on Disability as DEI
I mentioned in a previous post that we did not reach the finals of the Independent Book Publisher Association’s Innovative Voices Fellowship. The finalists included I believe 20 different publishers, all with either BIPOC or LGTBQIA+ voices. No one among them had a disability. The five winners were announced, and…
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A Dentist’s Perspective on Emotional Intelligence
I’ve been living the freelancer’s life these days, while I look for a new full-time job or make the plunge into somehow making Parisian Phoenix a bigger business. The reality probably likes between the two. I’ve met a really cool dentist (yes, those do exist), Dr. Steven Hymovitch, the author…
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List of Parisian Phoenix October Events
Mark Your Calendars October will include a dizzying array of events for the reading and writing aficionado. The list below includes our upcoming events, but if you’re looking for more specific information about the entirety of the Easton Book Festival, click here.
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A day to #GrowWithGoogle
Yesterday I had the serendipitous fortune to attend two session with Joshua Miller, Pennsylvania’s Digital Coach for Grow with Google. Google has partnered with Main Street America to find certain downtown markets that could benefit from digital coaches that introduce small business people to Google’s tools and how to use…
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David’s Little Town in a Good Place
Julian Costa’s new book, a memoir by David Scott Campbell, David’s Little Town, debuted earlier this week. The unfinished memoir, which Costa discovered during his research for Campbell’s biography, chronicles life in industrial Galion, Ohio, in mid-century (1950s) America. The book launched quietly, as we had some trouble with the…
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Writing Books that Inspire Us
Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…
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Progress on our erotic BDSM anthology (which still needs a title)
Our next Parisian Phoenix release will explore uncharted territory for us— an erotic anthology featuring kink, fetish and BDSM stories edited by myself and Ralph Greco, Jr. A simple erotic anthology would have been brand spanking new enough for us (yes, Ralph pun intended) but within our sphere we highlight…
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Writing Dirty Words— memoir? craft book? humor?
Ralph Greco Jr. launched in July his latest title, Writing Dirty Words (buy it here or from your favorite source of books, remember all of our titles are available through Ingram). It finds itself the #1 hot new release in “erotica fiction writing reference” on Amazon. Ralph has some honest…
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