Category: from the publisher

• from the publisher parisian phoenix author

  What we’ve read lately

  I finished an essay recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books, about book covers and book jackets. My art director passed it along to me. And, indeed, it talked about the various practices of book covers through history and around the world. What flummoxed me though is why Penguin Random House would publish this…

  1 Sep 2025
• events from the publisher reflection review

  Drag Culture and Existentialism

  Now, if Existentialist explores the meaninglessness of existence, (I talked about Existentialism yesterday) I would propose that drag culture celebrates our existence in every form and every nuance. Both Existentialism and Drag Culture force us to explore and critique society’s values, but wheres Existentialists are rather sullen about their conclusions, drag culture…

  31 Aug 2025
• coming soon fiction from the publisher

  When good intentions become bad decisions

  I’m more than a little on edge because my fifth novel, Absolution, is with Dianna Sinovic now. Dianna is editing the latest volume of the Fashion and Fiends series and I, like all authors, I am trying to forget she has it. I don’t care who you are— when an editor has your work, you’re…

  21 Aug 2025
• from the publisher nonfiction parisian phoenix author

  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 3

  No series about the love of travel would be complete without homage to the Great American Road Trip. Motorhome Gypsies: Practical RV Living Advice and Real World Adventures launched officially July 14. If flying isn’t your thing— this is just the book you need to embrace travel on the road. Chock…

  20 Jul 2025
• from the publisher nonfiction review

  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 2

  Early aviation and romance Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote the wonderful illustrated story, The Little Prince, but is also one of the 20th Century’s most daring aviators. He disappeared in flight during World War II. He wrote and he flew, and the two arts fed each other. Before his renowned novella, he…

  19 Jul 2025
• coming soon fiction from the publisher new releases nonfiction reflection

  For the love of airplanes and travel… part 1

  Many people schedule their family vacations for the summer, but I’ve always found family vacations to be expensive and laborious undertakings that require more coordination and efforts than what they yield. I’m more a random road trip kind of person, or travel bare bones with a friend. My favorite traveling…

  18 Jul 2025
• from the publisher review

  Bookstore Review: A visit to C. Simpson

  I have mixed feelings about used book shops. They are often dusty and cause issues with my allergies. They are sometimes disorganized or have vague pricing policies. So, I don’t often stop at random used book shops. But I have seen C. Simpson Used Books in Gilbert, Pa., on Route…

  17 Jul 2025
• from the publisher new releases

  Motorhome Gypsies out today

  14 Jul 2025
• from the publisher reflection

  Angel Ackerman experiments with ChatGPT

  ChatGPT came up in conversation several times last week and I expressed my usual concerns that (1) people need to fact check ChatGPT because it relies on generic scanning of the Internet and we all know how accurate the Internet-at-large is, and (2) we don’t know how/where ChatGPT sources its…

  13 Jul 2025
• coming soon from the publisher new releases

  Travels near and far

  The RV book— Motorhome Gypsies: Practical RV Living Advice & Real World Adventures— will release in a little more than a week. This book is a must-read if you ever contemplated RV or van life. It’s a fun read for the travel writing to follow Rachel Thompson and Lisa Cross in their journey around the country…

  6 Jul 2025