Category: new releases
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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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Releasing Friday: The Phulasso Devotional by Thurston D. Gill Jr., meditations on personal security and Christian values
Parisian Phoenix Publishing submitted its latest title, Thurston D. Gill Jr.’s The Phulasso Devotional, to the printer. We’re looking at the printer-generated proof and we are awe-struck and excited. A year ago Thurston had only dreamed of sharing his deep spirituality with the world in a broader fashion but he…
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Big Butch debuts this week, free now on Kindle unlimited
May, 1974. Jimmy Washburn lives in a sleepy small town with a beautiful wife he adores and his almost two children. He works at the small auto body shop his grandfather founded, under the direction of his uncle. Surrounded by family and lifelong friends, Jimmy has a good life reviving…
