Category: from the publisher

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  End of May update and all the fun: new novelette, podcasts and book reviews

  Greetings friends and readers, it’s Angel, founder and publisher of Parisian Phoenix Publishers. The independent publisher environment is brutal as a start-up because online algorithms, social media, and the book selling market create so much noise that independent authors and publishers remain invisible without a lot of work, support and…

  23 May 2022
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  Unboxing promotional items

  21 May 2022
• events from the publisher

  Adventures in Fine Art: Writers and Painters in Collaboration

  Today is the first day of the Chester County Studio Tour which celebrates 165 different artists in 68 studios. Gayle Hendricks, Parisian Phoenix art director, and myself, Angel Ackerman, publisher, joined Heather Pasqualino Weirich of Heather Pasqualino Fine Art at her studio on magnificent Valley Forge Mountain. Heather allowed us…

  14 May 2022
• from the publisher poetry reflection

  Asphalt and nostalgia: A recipe for poetry and emotional healing

  

  My father died almost six months ago. Mercury enters retrograde today. Almost one month ago, I ruptured a tendon in my finger. My teenager has an ear infection. But today, I found bliss in the construction outside my house. UGI has been tearing up the street for what feels like…

  10 May 2022
• from the publisher reflection Uncategorized

  Seasons of books and publishing

  I started pitching my book, Manipulations, the first volume of the Fashion and Fiends series, to traditional publishers and agents about 20 years ago. At the time, ebooks had not hit mainstream. Amazon had not yet transformed vanity publishing into self-publishing. My work was quirky and complex even then and…

  15 Apr 2022
• from the publisher news

  How do we sound?

  This morning, in anticipation of this package arriving today I thought of three pieces of news to include in this blog post. I don’t remember them now. So instead let’s focus on the unboxing of our new Fifine K683A microphone. If you want to hear some cat and Parisian Phoenix…

  9 Apr 2022
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  Advice from my English teacher and updating Goodreads, part one

  I went to a small rural high school but I was extremely fortunate to have gifted teachers and a strong curriculum. Several teachers proved influential in my development as a writer— but because of my participation in the school newspaper (which was an English class at my high school: journalism…

  5 Apr 2022
• from the publisher

  Podcasts for writers on publishing and marketing

  When Gayle designed the logo for the faux publisher who would later become Parisian Phoenix— I didn’t think much about the color pink. But a decade later I painted my bedroom the same color as the logo and about three years after that I said, “Gayle, let’s launch Parisian Phoenix.”…

  29 Mar 2022
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  Parisian Phoenix attends Lehigh Valley Book Festival

  Today was finally the day of the Lehigh Valley Book Festival as Angel Ackerman, publisher at Parisian Phoenix, mentioned in her personal blog post before the event. The schedule looked amazing and the vendor fair was slotted to include 30 tables— a lemonade stand, Feline Urban Rescue and Rehab, the…

  26 Mar 2022
• events from the publisher news

  Looking forward to this weekend’s Lehigh Valley Book Festival

  Parisian Phoenix Publishing Company is starting to get very excited about the upcoming Lehigh Valley Book Festival this Saturday. The free, open to the public and family event will feature a cornucopia of authors across genres. The link in the first paragraph will take you to their web page. Just…

  24 Mar 2022