Category: news

• coming soon fiction from the publisher news

  “Birthing” The Death of Big Butch

  The core staff of Parisian Phoenix— Publisher Angel Ackerman, Art Director Gayle Hendricks and photographer Joan Zachary— met today with author and member of the Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild Larry Sceurman (and his wife, Barbara) for a design brainstorming session about Sceurman’s upcoming debut book, a novella, The Death of…

  15 Oct 2022
• coming soon fiction news Uncategorized

  So, do you plan to NaNoWriMo?

  When I was still a board member at Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, someone in the membership mentioned this new-ish thing called NaNoWriMo, which I see now was founded in 1999. This would have been circa 2005, because my now high-school-graduate was a toddler. And I’m not sure, but I…

  11 Oct 2022
• coming soon events news review Uncategorized

  Murphy, you’re not going to win: How a Great Day Broke my Heart, part 2

  Part 1 of this blog post appeared on Angel Ackerman’s web site, angelackerman.com, and was reposted on ParisianPhoenix.com Yesterday, Rosie, the rose gold 13″ MacBook Air with the intel processor that Parisian Phoenix publisher Angel Ackerman bought refurbished from Apple about eighteen months ago when she decided to invest in…

  7 Oct 2022
• coming soon erotica news

  October Newsletter: Let’s talk about sex, or poetry, or cats, or scary stories

  Organizers of the free local event Easton Book Festival have invited Parisian Phoenix publisher and author Angel Ackerman and Kink Noir author William D. Prystauk to anchor a panel, Sex in the Text, at Centre Square’s Book and Puppet Company Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Former local journalist Angel Ackerman…

  6 Oct 2022
• cat coming soon fiction from the publisher news nonfiction parisian phoenix author Uncategorized

  The July newsletter promotes free books

  We sent our July newsletter this morning and, as usual, found a typo as soon as it left home. We hope you like it and would consider sharing it with a friend. To read the newsletter, click here. In the meantime, here are some of our recent activities: Last week’s…

  2 Jul 2022
• coming soon news

  Babbling to Andrew Gurza

  Our publisher, Angel Ackerman, had the chance to record her first podcast interview— as an honored guest of Andrew Gurza, whose podcast Disability after Dark was one of the influential forces in Angel’s decision to guide Parisian Phoenix toward “unique voices and diverse perspectives.” Parisian Phoenix is a proud Patreon…

  17 Jun 2022
• news parisian phoenix author review Uncategorized

  Exploring Bookshop.org and supporting our authors, a review of Tiffani Velez’s The Search

  Last week, we set up an affiliate link with Bookshop.org, an organization that supports independent booksellers. Here in the Lehigh Valley, we have two great independent bookstores, Book & Puppet Company in downtown Easton and Let’s Play Books in Emmaus. The concept is brilliant. Readers can order their books online…

  31 May 2022
• fiction from the publisher new releases news Uncategorized

  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
• 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
• 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