Category: from the publisher
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Happy New Year: Public Domain Day 2023
If you’re looking for inspiration for 2023, check out Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of Public Domain. As of today, works published in 1927 have entered the public domain and Duke has provided a list of them. Copyright causes a lot of confusion and questions among…
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I don’t have the answers.
It’s hard to believe that fifteen months have gone by since Parisian Phoenix released its first title on the world. Fifteen months, nine books, more than a dozen artists and writers working together to create craft books featuring unique voices and diverse perspectives. There are milestones we have reached as…
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Slowly revealing The Phulasso Devotional
Our publisher Angel Ackerman spent about half her Christmas Day editing The Phulasso Devotional. She mentions it in her personal blog, and watch our social media for more info on what Phulasso is and when you can expect it. I woke at 6:30 this morning but despite having ten hours…
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Yuletide Beginnings
When we launched Parisian Phoenix, we didn’t do extensive research or think about branding. When we thought up our tag line– promoting unique voices and diverse perspectives– it represented what we thought the creative world needed, But we might have been manifesting, to use a trendy term right now. We’re…
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Call for Submissions: The Scavenger Hunt Photo Book.
This is a very new idea, less than a week old. Expect some details to change, and watch our submissions page for updates. As creative people, the staff at Parisian Phoenix knows some really talented photographers. We wanted to highlight the work of these and other photographers with a scavenger…
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Brainstorming: Plans for 2023
We all need a brainstorming day. Our culture seems to value the end of the calendar year as a time for collecting our thoughts, setting goals and focusing on moving forward. But I think we all need to do such brainstorming and organizing periodically. First, a retrospective: Parisian Phoenix published…
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Small Business Saturday with Indie Booksellers
As a very small business and a craft publisher, Parisian Phoenix believes in supporting our peers and participating in the publishing industry in whatever ways we can. We do this by purchasing books from other small presses and independent/self-published authors, visiting independent bookstores, volunteering at libraries (and other literary venues),…
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Small Steps Breed Success
As a small business owner, it’s often a dance of two steps forward and one step back, coupled with the occasional misstep. So, from time to time, when editing manuscripts and coordinating the bits of the book-making process and developing marketing plans that sometimes derail before implemented, you have to…
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Preptober yields to NaNoWriMo
It’s pre-dawn on a crisp late October morning. The chill in the air has layered the cars on the street with frost and prompted the heat to warm the inside of my house as I sip strong coffee. We’re on the cusp of November, which means we better hurry into…
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