Category: nonfiction

• from the publisher nonfiction review

  Review: The Business of Being a Writer

  If you have any serious interest in writing, Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer, now its second edition will prove to be the best investment you can make in your own experience. I don’t care if you’re a hobbyist or a career writer, if you write to gain fame or to make money, if you have…

  8 Jun 2026
• coming soon from the publisher new releases news nonfiction

  Learning for Life Launches

  Niche historian and educator Julian Costa has produced three books with Parisian Phoenix: David’s Little Town, a posthumous memoir by David Scott Campbell about growing up in mid-century industrial Ohio; The Audio-Visual Teacher about Hamilton Lee, the story of a Chinese immigrant who became an influential communications professor in the United States; and Coach of the Building, a career history of Richard…

  7 Jun 2026
• erotica fiction nonfiction poetry

  Summer Must Reads

  If you’re looking for your summer must-reads, let me suggest:

  6 May 2026
• coming soon from the publisher nonfiction

  Welcome, Historical Society

  Finally, I want to welcome the Greenwich Historical Society to the Parisian Phoenix fold, as they contacted me about publishing their hometown heroes banner project in a commemorative book. Gayle and I met with the society last night at the Greenwich Township Municipal Building in Stewartsville, N.J., which— full circle— was one of the…

  20 Jan 2026
• events nonfiction

  Events for October and Beyond: 3-hour memoir workshop this Saturday

  This weekend Angel Ackerman will be at the Blank Slate Community Center for a special three-hour memoir workshop designed for anyone whether you have no writing experience or have been writing professionally. We’re going to look at samples of various memoirs– example the style in which you can tell your…

  9 Oct 2025
• nonfiction parisian phoenix author poetry

  Time Management

  So, if you do find yourself perpetually biting off more than you can chew, McKenna Graf might have some advice for you. Early this week, McKenna had an article published in Hippocampus Magazine. She gives fantastic tips on how she balances her creative endeavors with her academic life as a student at Lafayette College.…

  24 Sep 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
• guest blog new releases nonfiction

  Motorhome Gypsy Luck… Strikes Again

  By Rachel C. Thompson If you read our book, Motorhome Gypsies, you will have seen a good measure of motorhome gypsy luck— good and bad. On a recent trip, we had both kinds. As usual for us, good luck won out.  We wouldn’t be motorhome gypsies if we didn’t have…

  16 Jul 2025