Category: from the publisher

• from the publisher reflection

  Facing The Tax Monster

  Part of the fun of modern living is dealing with taxes. As the founder and owner of Parisian Phoenix Publishing, I handle my federal taxes with minimal angst but with the addition of Echo City Capers to our stable in 2023, we suddenly faced the reality of in-person sales where…

  9 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher nonfiction reflection

  Confessions of a History Nerd

  I love local history. I own Jim Lee’s book on the history of the Warren County, N.J., canal system and a signed copy of Kingdom of Coal by Don Miller and Richard Sharpless. (The two Lafayette professors wrote the book about the history of the Pennsylvania coal regions.) So, it’s…

  7 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher

  Sunday wrap-up

  Parisian Phoenix has been hopping. From the Echo City Capers Bookstore and Craft Fair Fall Tour still underway, the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival last weekend, the book launch of Juicy Bits: Erotic Stories of BDSM, Kink & Fetish, new and old clients and yesterday’s presentation and workshop at Greater…

  29 Oct 2023
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  Sometimes you can be silly

  People often come in and out of other people’s lives. Good friendships can be fluid, picking up where they left off or drifting apart only to reconnect later. Good friendships can form over mistakes, and my connection with Darnell Davis, the co-founder of ASPIRE to Autonomy and host of the…

  28 Oct 2023
• fiction from the publisher reflection review

  Book clubs and beers

  I have a lot on my plate these days– as a publisher, as an editor, as an unemployed person and a mom. I try to live my life with honesty and transparency because we, as American citizens, hide too many of our struggles and our fears. Being a creative person…

  18 Oct 2023
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  Revisiting Phulasso

  In preparation for the Easton Book Festival, I have been working with Thurston D. Gill, Jr., and updating his web pages as he moves toward the future of Phulasso. Thurston will be delivering an opening blessing for the event and its attendees at Easton Public Market, 325 Northampton Street, at…

  16 Oct 2023
• from the publisher review

  A day in the [publisher of a small craft press] life

  Saturday, 7 a.m.: Wake and roll out of bed. Attend to animals, daughter, medication and coffee. I file more business paperwork. 8 a.m.: Check IngramSpark (no sales to note), review Amazon rankings, review Substack and social media analytics. I answer emails, of course. And organize and delete the onslaught of…

  15 Oct 2023
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  Food, Academia and Television

  Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…

  10 Oct 2023
• from the publisher reflection

  Thoughts on Disability as DEI

  I mentioned in a previous post that we did not reach the finals of the Independent Book Publisher Association’s Innovative Voices Fellowship. The finalists included I believe 20 different publishers, all with either BIPOC or LGTBQIA+ voices. No one among them had a disability. The five winners were announced, and…

  5 Oct 2023
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  Writing Books that Inspire Us

  Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…

  23 Aug 2023