Category: fiction

• coming soon fiction from the publisher new releases

  Who Turned Out the Lights is at the printer!

  The last time we saw our publisher, she was busy fighting the multitude of typos and punctation errors… Who Turned Out the Lights has gone to the printer! The official release date is January 31. I had a lot of fun working with Joseph Swarctz and Ralph Greco Jr. on…

  6 Jan 2024
• fiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Echo City Year End Wrap Up

  By Ralph Greco Jr. Let me jump in here, as I sometimes do when Baxter will allow me… Joe and I had quite the year, and we wanted to thank everybody who made it possible and, yes, I guess, brag a bit. From securing our first-ever bookstore signings/appearances—at two Barnes…

  20 Dec 2023
• erotica events fiction

  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
• fiction reflection review

  All the Light We Cannot See: About time we see a heroic, female blind protagonist

  Netflix recently released their four-episode adaption of the historical fiction novel All the Light We Cannot See. And of course now I want to read it. The women in my local public library book club recommended the small screen adaptation since we were reading another World War II historical fiction.…

  3 Dec 2023
• fiction from the publisher new releases review

  The Year in Children’s Lit (2023)

  2023 marked Parisian Phoenix’s official entry into children’s lit with the launch of Parisian Phoenix Kittens and the release of the Echo City Capers Jr. hardcover children’s books. Joe and Ralph, our own dynamic duo, have another hardcover planned for 2024, a hardcover update to Otto the Oak. But I…

  28 Nov 2023
• events fiction from the publisher

  NaNoWriMo Uh-oh

  For the last few weeks, Parisian Phoenix had so much happening that I had blog posts scheduled a week or two out. And, I suppose in reality, we STILL have enough going on that I could do that but things have grown hectic and my time is getting stretched thin.…

  16 Nov 2023
• craft tips fiction reflection review

  Fiction as an Educational Tool

  This week, I read the work of two local authors– Phil Giunta whom I know from the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and Reyna Favis from the Phillipsburg Writers Group and a former member and supporter of The Phillipsburg Historical Society. I’ve been writing about them a lot lately. (For…

  11 Nov 2023
• craft tips events fiction

  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…

  31 Oct 2023
• coming soon events fiction poetry

  Parisian Phoenix events at Easton Book Festival

  Juicy Bits released last week and can be purchased at all the regular places like Amazon, or Bookshop.org, or you can ask your local bookseller to order it for you from Ingram. We will be hosting a launch party at the Easton Book Festival at Book & Puppet Company on the circle (22 Centre Square) in downtown…

  20 Oct 2023
• craft tips events fiction reflection

  The evening of Under 1,000 Suns

  As one of the publishers involved in the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival, I spend much of the event chaperoning my authors and doing what I need to do as I’ve been asked to do it. This year, I’m making more of an effort to attend more events that I’m…

  19 Oct 2023