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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…
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McKenna Graf featured on Lafayette College’s website
Lafayette College featured McKenna Graf, the poet behind the Archive of Adolescence poetry series, on their web site last week– talking about her experience on campus and as a published poet. The article highlights the collaboration between McKenna, Angel Ackerman and the influence of Darrell Parry. McKenna’s final volume of…
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FLASH/Slam: Reflections on Three Minute Fiction
A post from Parisian Phoenix Author E.H. Jacobs I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to win. I’d be delusional if I said that I expected to. Almost every year, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project hosts its Three Minute Fiction Slam, a friendly competition for New Hampshire writers,…
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Parisian Phoenix at Northampton Community College
Move organizer Jevata Crawford, who earlier this month released her book Moving in Place with the help of Parisian Phoenix Publishing, spoke with Gayle Hendrick’s Communication Design class at Northampton Community College.
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Update from R. Diskin Black
Memoirist and poet R. Diskin Black, whose compelling poetry collection will release from Parisian Phoenix in March, sent his zombie novella Zombie Scout: The Diary of Jack Sullivan for our perusal. My right-hand sidekick Nancy Scott and I loved his poetic memoir and I positively devoured his young adult urban fantasy Ethan Weiss and the City Between…
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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.…
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What we’ve read lately
I finished an essay recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books, about book covers and book jackets. My art director passed it along to me. And, indeed, it talked about the various practices of book covers through history and around the world. What flummoxed me though is why Penguin Random House would publish this…
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Shedding Light on Dark Realities
By Geraldine Donaher, author of the upcoming Young Adult novel Mouth Shut Head Down I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These recently. Her writing has a bare-minimum quality that is refreshing to read. Too many words and sometimes a story gets lost. Keegan reveals the horrors of trafficking by…
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