Author: Angel Ackerman
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Juicy Bits release and some notes on October 6
October 6. That was Friday. I don’t know what you were doing Friday but I was hanging out with our illustrious Nancy Scott working on some clever haiku and in the afternoon I had a job interview. (I have another tomorrow if you’re interested in my transition to whatever my next…
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Food, Academia and Television
Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…
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Reminder: Master List of October Events
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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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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