Category: new releases
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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…
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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…
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David’s Little Town in a Good Place
Julian Costa’s new book, a memoir by David Scott Campbell, David’s Little Town, debuted earlier this week. The unfinished memoir, which Costa discovered during his research for Campbell’s biography, chronicles life in industrial Galion, Ohio, in mid-century (1950s) America. The book launched quietly, as we had some trouble with the…
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Echo City Capers will be on site for Delaware Riverfest August 26 in Portland, Pa., with their snazzy hardcovers and perhaps a sneak peek of their upcoming Christmas Special. This event will kick-off the children’s book duo’s fall season of events. (Which the writer of Echo City, Ralph Greco Jr.,…
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Writing Dirty Words now available
This week has been a delightful split between two of our favorite pastimes here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing– disability advocacy and dirty words. Today (as I write this it is 6 a.m.) is the first Lehigh Valley Disability Pride, hosted by Disability Pride PA and the Lehigh Valley Arts and…
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Ten days
Just a quick post to reassure the world that Parisian Phoenix has not forgotten how to construct a sentence. It’s been ten days since I published– and I’ll be starting a new post on Substack later this weekend. They take me hours to write and normally I break them into…
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Lucky #13
My team— and specifically Gayle— has to chastise me constantly for sharing news and images too early. But I’m excited! And I like to spread the joy! Sure, sometimes it means cover reveals end up not exactly matching the cover on the book, but it also allows you, as readers…
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Books, book reviews and book news
I recently purchased Suzanne Mattaboni’s “eighties novel” Once in a Lifetime and kept it in my purse to keep me company in all the medical waiting rooms. As in my habit, I reviewed the book on Goodreads and tagged the author however I could on social media— and she quoted…
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Why We Read: I don’t think it’s escape
We often hear that readers read books to escape, but I think it’s more complex than that. I think, sure, if we had to describe succinctly the allure of reading that would be it. I’ve been a writer for decades. And if I it weren’t for personal health issues*, I…
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