Author: Angel Ackerman
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Launching tomorrow: Let’s talk about Jules
Tomorrow— Not the Quiet French Kid, an inexpensive novelette featuring the origin story of Jules Zweigenbaum from the Fashion and Fiends series, launches. A novelette is basically a long short story or an extra short novella. This one includes some excerpts from all of the Fashion and Fiends novels so…
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Launching tomorrow: Let’s talk about Jules
Tomorrow— Not the Quiet French Kid, an inexpensive novelette featuring the origin story of Jules Zweigenbaum from the Fashion and Fiends series, launches. A novelette is basically a long short story or an extra short novella. This one includes some excerpts from all of the Fashion and Fiends novels so…
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Messages from the street team
Publisher Angel Ackerman just posted this to her personal blog… At work today, by my math, I did 102% in my home department folding clothes— 159 fixes to be exact during a ten-hour shift that started with a 20+ … Messages from the street team
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“Old Lady Bruises”
An essay about aging by Rachel ThompsonYou’ve seen them— old man or old lady—they’re everywhere. Molded from common cast. Their forearms look as if they’ve reached into the jaws of death. But, perhaps, they had only reached for a can of tuna. You wonder if it’s cancer or medication, or…
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Sunday Morning Inspiration: On Word Counts
As some of you may already know, I do a lot of my work for Parisian Phoenix Publishing in the pre-dawn hour before my day job. The business is still young, and maybe someday it will support me and a full-time staff and my menagerie of birds, cats, and dog.…
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Babbling to Andrew Gurza
Our publisher, Angel Ackerman, had the chance to record her first podcast interview— as an honored guest of Andrew Gurza, whose podcast Disability after Dark was one of the influential forces in Angel’s decision to guide Parisian Phoenix toward “unique voices and diverse perspectives.” Parisian Phoenix is a proud Patreon…
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From Joan Zachary: Details on next week’s free presentation of photography and book design
By Joan Zachary, official Parisian Phoenix photographer This 21st century world is a visual one. We have social media to thank for this. Are you drawn to a Facebook post with a picture, ignoring the ones that are only text? Of course you are. I was first invited by Parisian…
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Next week’s events: an origin story and a GLVWG workshop
Parisian Phoenix has passed its nine month anniversary this month. This business is like a new relationship: every month matters. Next week, specifically June 23 and June 25, we have two special events. On June 23, Not the Quiet French Kid, a novelette from the Fashion and Fiends series focused…
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Reviewing Shannon Gonyou’s Since Sinai
At Parisian Phoenix, we believe in supporting other authors, other publishers and other artists. To that extent, publisher Angel Ackerman participates as a reader and reviewers on NetGalley and shares what she is reading on Goodreads and social media. The publishing world presents a lot of “us” (as small independent…
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