Category: news
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Writing Dirty Word hits a #1
I’ll keep it brief, but Ralph Greco Jr.’s Writing Dirty Words has hit #1 in Amazon’s hot new releases in the erotica fiction writing reference niche. What I find hysterical is that the #3 title came out two weeks before Ralph’s book and it sounds like the same book but…
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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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Poetry is Stupid; Change My Mind
Today, at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, Darrell Parry delivered a presentation at the organization’s morning meeting called, “Poetry is Stupid. Change My Mind.” He followed that with an afternoon workshop of what he described as 12 enthusiastic writers participating in various exercises relate to the crafting of poetry…
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How important are public libraries?
What do you expect from a public library in today’s world? In my area, small public libraries are struggling. My family has had someone serving on my local library board of trustees for about 15 years. Small libraries have always struggled with proper funding, but since the pandemic, another shift…
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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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Save-the-Date April 29: National Independent Bookstore Day
It’s a Save-The-Date edition of the Parisian Phoenix blog— we’re writing today to tell you to mark your calendars for APRIL 29. It’s National Independent Bookstore Day and if you’re local to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, we’ll be celebrating with downtown Easton’s Book and Puppet Company and honoring the Arts Community…
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