Author: Angel Ackerman

• reflection

  Find the joy

  My PSA: Earlier this month, I had one of those weeks where I was scheduled from sun-up past sun-down every single day. It exhausted me. And we all know better, but sometimes this kind of week is unavoidable. For me, it happened because my annual medical appointments happen in September,…

  23 Sep 2025
• poetry

  New from Nancy Scott

  Meanwhile, Nancy Scott has two new bylines you can read online. One celebrates an effort on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail to bring poetry to the trail. Their September poetry includes “September Spice.” Chai tastes like another continent when lips and fingers curve to catch worth of warmth. The autumn open door turns truck exhaust…

  17 Sep 2025
• news reflection

  Lawsuits involving AI & the importance of copyright

  In the car this morning, I listened to a Wall Street Journal podcast about the recent lawsuit between authors and Anthropic AI. A judge recently ruled that Anthropic could use authors’ work to train its AI model under fair use if the works were acquired in such a way that compensated the author. Originally,…

  14 Sep 2025
• events

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  13 Sep 2025
• events

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  2 Sep 2025
• from the publisher parisian phoenix author

  What we’ve read lately

  I finished an essay recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books, about book covers and book jackets. My art director passed it along to me. And, indeed, it talked about the various practices of book covers through history and around the world. What flummoxed me though is why Penguin Random House would publish this…

  1 Sep 2025
• events from the publisher reflection review

  Drag Culture and Existentialism

  Now, if Existentialist explores the meaninglessness of existence, (I talked about Existentialism yesterday) I would propose that drag culture celebrates our existence in every form and every nuance. Both Existentialism and Drag Culture force us to explore and critique society’s values, but wheres Existentialists are rather sullen about their conclusions, drag culture…

  31 Aug 2025
• fiction reflection

  Frosties and Existentialism

  In my childhood, Frosties came in chocolate. Then, in my 21-year-old daughter’s lifetime, they added vanilla. But now, it seems they have this list of flavors that sound like a DQ married a Starbucks: This led to a household discussion of decision fatigue, and the comment of one of our friends, in…

  30 Aug 2025
• reflection

  Back to School

  The dog started barking at 7:28 a.m., and I said to my daughter (who was packing her bag for her 8 a.m. college class), “What she barking at? It’s too early to be barking. There should be nothing going on.” And then, I realized. The bus stop for all the…

  29 Aug 2025
• fiction new releases

  Happy Book Birthday

  Let me say happy book birthday to our debut author Dawn O’Harra who created a historical fiction chronicle of her adventures as a flight attendant: Any Landing You Walk Away From… Any Landing is a perfect travel read— lighthearted, at home in the airport, with a touch of romance. It’s the story of friendship,…

  28 Aug 2025