Category: parisian phoenix author
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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
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Top 5 Under-appreciated Albums of Classic Rock Bands
By Ralph Greco Jr. Some of writing I do—when not penning kid’s books, a writer’s memoir, or co-editing a naughty story antho, all for the lovely Angel Ackerman—is scribbling reviews and interviews for various rock music sites and publication like Vintagerock.com. I receive lots of new music releases from classic or…
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Summer of 1968
Larry Sceurman, author of Coffee in the Morning and The Death of Big Butch and children’s titles, Bookworm’s Magical Journey and Frog and Crow’s Conversation, wrote a lovely newsletter on Sunday honoring Memorial Day: Decoration Day & Reflections of Summer of ’68 I had to deal with some health issues, so I haven’t been in a creative frame of…
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First Event in Ledgewood NJ
In our first event at the Ledgewood, N.J., Barnes & Noble, Dawn O’Harra, a retired teacher and former flight attendant with United Airlines, will be signing her book Any Landing… a historical fiction novel (with a clean romance element) about flying in the 1980s after deregulation. It’s a light read full of insider tidbits…