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  Friends of Pete at the Pomfret Club

  Happy Wednesday– this week (with the snow of last weekend, the rain and wind storm of last night and the about-time arrival of winter temperatures) has been moving both slowly and quickly. Today, Darnell Davis and Pete Reinke of the Friends of Pete networking group hosted a Lunch N Learn…

  10 Jan 2024
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  Girls’ Night Out at Boser Geist

  Last week I got a message from fine artist and art book maker Maryann Riker of Justarip Press. She and I have known each other at least 20 years through my newspaper days in Phillpsburg, N.J. I heard about her art books and asked if I could do a piece…

  29 Dec 2023
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  Meeting a Cover Girl

  At the Holiday Market hosted by Blue Flame Events at the Palmer Park Mall (which is now full of an intriguing variety of small businesses), Joe and I met a young woman who looked like she belonged on the cover of Juicy Bits. We asked her to pose with the book and gave her a copy.…

  18 Dec 2023
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  Coke Zero and cinnamon doughnuts: The Universe at work as I prep for a new post on Substack

  It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon in December. I’m drinking Coke Zero and pounding down cinnamon Tastykake mini donuts– the blend of sugar and sassy cinnamon fresher and tastier than I’ve had in years. It’s 1:30 p.m. and already today I’ve talked to one of our authors, our photography and our…

  9 Dec 2023
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  Another Day in the Life of a Small Publisher (December edition)

  As publisher here at Parisian Phoenix, my days never quite go as planned. But I thought I’d take a moment to describe a recent approximate 24-hours-in-the-life. Let’s start roughly at 5 p.m. last night. I had completed a project earlier in the day for a client, and sent it to…

  8 Dec 2023
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  Wow, it’s December: Time for the Echo City Christmas Special

  Imagine a modern version of the Grinch, where Santa is just a text message away and the threat to Christmas is not a man covered in tatty green fur but the latest MegaMall. That’s what you’ll find in the Echo City Capers Junior Christmas Special by illustrator Joseph Swarctz and…

  2 Dec 2023
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  More on the visits to Northampton Community College

  Twice this semester, we’ve posted about Parisian Phoenix author visits to Northampton Community College where our talented art director teaches graphic design. One of the coolest– and apparently hardest– classes in the journalism program there is “media publications,” where students learn the basics of graphic design to enable them to…

  1 Dec 2023
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  Engaging in Craft without Leaving Home

  This one is for the writers, the authors, the wordsmiths. Now that winter is upon us, (first real cold snap here in the Northeast and while I used to walk my daughter to school every day, I can’t take the cold now. Gone are the days of walking in -10…

  30 Nov 2023
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  Plan your visit to Echo City

  The Echo City creators, Ralph Greco Jr. and Joseph Swarctz, are on the road again–after several successful book store visits and a stop by St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital to distribute some Echo City Holiday Cheer. But don’t let me tell you. Let’s take a look at what Echo City’s favorite…

  29 Nov 2023
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  Power of People, Part 2

  Lunch N Learn with Friends of Pete With the Office of DEI at Moravian University At the Lunch N Learn event, I had the privilege of weaving my way around my alma mater. I sat with some new and old friends, not sure who would wish to be outed on…

  18 Nov 2023