Category: craft tips

• craft tips nonfiction

  Networking and Professional Groups for Writers

  As you progress from writer to author, there are dozens of organizations with different goals that you can turn to for help. Here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing, many of us met at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group (GLVWG.org). Angel Ackerman served as president of that group, twice, about 15…

  26 Aug 2022
• craft tips nonfiction parisian phoenix staff

  How do you use the Internet?

  I have a question for you: How do you use the Internet? How do you utilize your blog and/or social media to enhance your productivity as a writer? I mean it. How? More than a decade ago, when he had recently published Ghost Road Blues, I attended a workshop with…

  22 Jul 2022
• craft tips Uncategorized

  Spotify playlists for writers

  As many creative people do, Parisian Phoenix publisher Angel Ackerman has a day job. At that day job, her employer allows associates to listen to music or podcasts. So, several hours a day, Angel absorbs information from other writers, publishers and their support professionals like editors and agents. Not everyone…

  14 Jul 2022
• craft tips guest blog reflection

  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…

  6 Jul 2022
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  Testing Scrivener’s Free Trial

  Author Media aired a full episode on Scrivener— and listening to the tools and benefits and the generous free trial I thought it might be fun to give it a try. The concept, as explained on the episode, was a software that allowed better word processing and grammar tools, that…

  28 Jun 2022
• craft tips from the publisher

  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.…

  19 Jun 2022