Category: events
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News, NaNo and the Noble Quills
It’s been a few days of minor excitement. Projects for new clients are coming together– a journalist friend looking for help launching a socially-conscious web news magazine, Dr. Steven Hymovitch’s upcoming The Emotionally Intelligent Dental Office has reemerged on my schedule for a block tomorrow, a ghostwriting true crime project…
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The Hustle Continues… a chat with female small business owners
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a webinar through Santander Small Business Banking, “She Built This: Business Perspectives From Female Founders.” It had a clever title, so of course I went. I’m posting about it here, on the Parisian Phoenix web site, because I think it’s important to…
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To NaNo… or no?
Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the first day of November. It’s National Novel Writing Month. In the mid-aughts, a phenomenon developed that lead to an organization that might now be classified as a writing movement. Every November, let’s all try to write a novel. First draft. Messy. Painful. But keep going. 1700…
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The final plug, TOMORROW 10/28: Using Podcasts to Research, Improve and Promote Your Writing
At the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting TOMORROW, after I perform my official duties as president, I will deliver a program and workshop on how podcasts can help your writing. Yes. You read that correctly– using podcasts to RESEARCH what you are writing about, IMPROVE your techniques and PROMOTE what…
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Disability Poetics
Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…
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Parisian Phoenix at Easton Book Festival 2023
Some photos by Joan Zachary Parisian Phoenix Publishing participated in several events at the Easton Book Festival– and we attended as many as we could, trying to snake around the commitments of our own programming. Primarily, we hosted a launch party for our new erotic anthology, Juicy Bits. The Echo…
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Next up: Using Podcasts to Research, Improve & Promote Your Writing
So, now that the Easton Book Festival has wound down, I will be focusing my attention on the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting this week, where after I perform my official duties as president, I will deliver a program and workshop on how podcasts can help your writing. William D. Prystauk*…
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I hope you get married if you’re not already
Today was the final day of the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival and I may end up writing about it for the next couple days– about our experience reading, our experience at the expo, our conversations with each other and with those on our own team. And I will also…
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