Author: Angel Ackerman
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Excerpts from Angel Ackerman’s Fashion and Fiends paranormal women’s fiction
To purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, direct from Parisian Phoenix. Want to read the beginnings of the Fashion and Fiends novels? Here you go… Manipulations, Book One August 2002Chapter OneLughaidh gripped the crumpled People magazine page against the steering wheel as he stared across the parking lot. It had…
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Sharing my podcast expertise, from the beginning
We proposed a column to the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, sharing our breadth of podcast knowledge and our Spotify playlists. I just emailed the first sample in, and I thought I would share it with you. Podcasts to improve your storytelling I’m not really a fan of podcasts. I…
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Trapped
To purchase Trapped, or any of the Parisian Phoenix books, visit Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble’s website or order direct from us here. By Seneca Blue The opening: CHAPTER ONE (circa 2007)“Could this day get any worse?” Ed asked herself.She slammed her cell phone closed, thrusting the electronic inconvenience into…
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Celebrating cover design, book design and original art
Today is the coldest day so far this winter, with an actual temperate of six degrees Farenheit and an even lower wind chill. This is doubly surprising to me– even as someone accustomed to winter in the northeast United States– because so far this weekend, little, prone-to-be-cold publisher Angel Ackerman…
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NetGalley: A Starving Artist Resource for the Latest Books
If you are a writer and/or author, you have a duty to stay current. Just like any profession, the writer must know what is happening in the industry. Common advice points toward Amazon for information on trends, genres and even as a source to show what covers sell. And, of…
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The social aspects of writing community
In an effort to connect more writers, artists, authors and other creative professionals, Parisian Phoenix believes in networking, sharing resources, offering support and mentoring. Publisher Angel Ackerman routinely corresponds with journalism students who take classes with art director Gayle Hendricks in her role as graphic design professor at local colleges.…
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Your Amazon figures do not mean squat
As you may have noticed, this forum has recently contained more shares from my personal blog (angelackerman.com) than news about publishing in the last few days. Last week left me springing from one thing to the next, again and again. Every day I face choices as a publisher versus a…
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Life truly is stranger than fiction
Angel Ackerman shares some local oddities with photographer Joan Zachary. Who doesn’t want to see a field of dinosaurs? I loved being a newspaper reporter and I adored working for weeklies the best. Weekly newspaper reporters typically had a geographic beat, whereas … Inspiring tour of the Phillipsburg area… cats,…
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new years goal—remember to proofread!
Originally posted on solo | small group design and software training: I make a fair number of typos as evidenced by this blog and my walking blog. Many I catch. I also miss a fair number. If I miss them on project briefs for my students, or emails, they will…
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Movie Review: M3GAN and BookTube announcement
Greetings everyone! This week got away from me— as some weeks do from all of us I suppose– but I did take a minute to go see the horror satire M3GAN and recorded my thoughts on my personal blog and portfolio, angelackerman.com. I’ll do my best to keep sharing writing-related…
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