Author: Angel Ackerman
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On Style and Skill
An essay about understanding the writing rules before you break them by Rachel Thomspon. Style, what it is and what it ain’t.A writer in my critique group turned to the others and said, “That’s my style. It’s fine.”It wasn’t fine and it wasn’t style.He had argued about it many times…
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Here Kitty Kitty
As The FURR Flies, an anthology of cat stories, heart-warming tales from cat rescuers, cat resources and cat advice has gone from in the pipeline to full-on pre-production. The editorial team is sifting through stories while the volunteers of Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab are compiling their mini-memoirs and sending…
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Hunting among urban decay and industrial ruins for spaceships
Part of creating Parisian Phoenix meant having a vision and surrounding that vision with the talent to realize that vision. Angel Ackerman spent 15 years as a journalist where she learned a variety of tricks from professional photographers. In the early days of her marriage to poet Darrell Parry, Angel…
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Notes from the field… Photography, Writers & GLVWG
Today, several of us from the Parisian Phoenix Publishing staff attended the June meeting of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group where Joan Zachary, our official photographer, gave a presentation to the membership about the relationship between photography and writers. Myself (Publisher and Founder Angel Ackerman), Art Director and co-Founder…
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Where to Find Our Books
We updated our Bookshop.org* affiliate link to include out latest title, Not the Quiet French Kid. Our general affiliate link is here. Our titles on Bookshop.org* can be found here. *prices at Bookshop.org include shipping. Our publisher page at Barnes & Noble is here. Our publisher page on Amazon is…
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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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