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  Explore the Literary Landscape

  Opportunities for YOU to write In addition to the Write to Read workshops, Parisian Phoenix has a variety of upcoming opportunities where you can explore your own writing passions. If you’re interested in learning more about Substack, the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group will host Angel Ackerman on September 28, presenting Newsletters for Authors and an afternoon workshop…

  24 Sep 2024
• events fiction

  Meet a Storyteller: Larry Sceurman

  On Sunday, September 22, our resident oral storyteller Larry Sceurman will be signing books at the Barnes & Noble Bethlehem in the Southmont Shopping Center from 1 to 4 p.m. He will have copies of both of his nostalgic fiction books, novella The Death of Big Butch and short story collection Coffee in the Morning.  In October, Larry will…

  21 Sep 2024
• events reflection

  Death of the American Mall?

  Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend the day at the Mall Rats Punk Vendor Festival at the Palmer Park Mall, celebrating the 1990s, and hosted by Blue Flame Events. My Echo City Capers duo, illustrator Joseph Swarctz and his sidekick author Ralph Greco Jr., were signing books down at the Barnes & Noble at the Promenade Shops in Center…

  20 Sep 2024
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  We made the Bethlehem Social Calendar

  I was finishing my Google Slides for my presentation September 28 when I received a “Talkwalker” alert in my email that Parisian Phoenix Publishing had appeared on the Lehigh Valley Press social calendar for Bethlehem. They printed a press release from the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group about the workshop…

  17 Sep 2024
• events

  Updated Events Calendar

  Upcoming events: September 14: Angel Ackerman promoting the Fashion and Fiends series at Mall Rats, the punk vendor fair celebrating the 1990s, hosted by Blue Flame Events at the Palmer Park Mall, Easton, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Did you know? Adelaide Pitney, the supermodel in the horror/dark romance novel Manipulations, was born in 1978? The story takes place in…

  9 Sep 2024
• erotica events fiction from the publisher reflection review

  Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment

  As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…

  6 Sep 2024
• erotica events from the publisher review

  The Impromptu Bookshop Tour

  I drove from the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania to Atlanta, Georgia to host a workshop on erotic fiction writing at SexDownSouth in Galleria 2 of the Downtown Hilton at 4 p.m. today. So… this is really happening… I drove the whole distance, my trusted 2015 Jetta turbo and I, and…

  5 Sep 2024
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  Update on Publisher Travels

  Angel Ackerman (yes, that is me) left the Lehigh Valley yesterday for the first leg of her journey to Georgia for SexDownSouth:Atlanta. She used the holiday weekend as an excuse to stop and visit her traveling companion M in Washington, D.C. Travel Day 2 begins tomorrow as Angel heads through…

  2 Sep 2024
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  September & October Workshops with Angel

  September 3-7, SexDownSouth: Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia: I will lead a workshop on exploring your fantasies and writing your own erotica on Thursday, September 5, at 4 p.m. To register for the conference, click here and use the code ANGEL for a discount. (To see my presenter page, click here.) September 22, Greater Lehigh Valley…

  27 Aug 2024
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  Tentative plans for Easton Book Festival 2024

  Larry Sceurman and I, and perhaps Seneca Blue, will share our experiences writing about local settings in a panel for the Easton Book Festival. That panel will be at 2 p.m. Sunday October 20 at the new location of Book and Puppet Company, our favorite local independent bookseller. The three of us all use the Lehigh Valley…

  25 Aug 2024