Category: parisian phoenix author
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Recording at WDVR
By Ralph Greco Jr. Because I really am so cool, I was invited to be a guest on publisher Angel Ackerman’s “Take The Mike,” recorded at WDVR (find it here) the other day. Angel, a wonderful editor and publisher (she’s published and edited yours truly), asked me to join her…
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Familiar voices in Pulse
Nancy Scott and I stumbled across Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine thanks to a post on the Behind Our Eyes Writers Partyline. The online publication features stories from the medical world written by caregivers, patients and medical professionals. Nancy had an article published three years ago about her experience moving into an independent…
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News from Lafayette College
We have received proof copies of Professor Paul Barclay’s second edition of his tome Kondo the Barbarian. The book officially goes on sale November 1, but can be preordered. If you frequent Bookshop.org, here is a link. I’m a bit of a history nerd so I welcomed the chance to help keep Paul’s book…
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Top Ten List: Why authors should hang out at art festivals and book fairs
By Geraldine Donaher, author of Mouth Shut Head Down Art festivals and book fairs get authors out of their heads, off the computer, and into the messy world of human interaction. I’m not talking about paying a $75 table fee to sell five books. Instead of such high costs, I invest in…
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New Jersey with Ray
When R. Diskin Black and I discussed promoting his then upcoming poetry memoir, buried under snow in our prospective neighborhoods, I mentioned we could find some new-to-us North Jersey bookstores randomly and make an adventure out of it. He could take the NJ Transit train from New York City, and I could…
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First Six Months of Sea Glass
By Brian Mahoney, author of Discovering Sea Glass Reflecting on my poetry book Discovering Sea Glass feels like unscrambling a rubix cube that I worked on for a while…while unpeeling a textured layer of it to examine what’s inside of it all. The initial excitement emerged in January and February…
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Serendipity in Europe
A fun little story from France for Bastille Day. Echo City illustrator Joseph Swarctz recently returned from a European cruise. Joe wanted to bring me back a souvenir so he stopped at a used bookstore in Marseilles, France (a city I also have visited) and, not speaking French, picked a book…
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Books that Will Punch You In the Gut
Books that’ll make you wish you wrote them / that’ll make you ugly cry A list of books outside the Parisian Phoenix universe compiled by Sheena Stimpfl as part of our “Top Five Countdown List” series, where various members of our universe contribute some of their favorites to share with…
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New Psychological Novel
Order it online and support your favorite independent bookseller here. SUMMER CELEBRATION