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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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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…
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Bestsellers
This week, several Parisian Phoenix new titles hit the top 100 in various Amazon categories:
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Jacobs on Talk Radio
E.H. Jacobs read from and discussed his political thriller, Splintered River, on WKXL New Hampshire Talk Radio. He appeared on The Writers’ Den as their new author segment, you can listen to that here for another week or so: WKXL. The segment begins shortly after the 45-minute mark and includes a quote from me about why…
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Sceurman at Whitehall Library this week
Parisian Phoenix author Larry Sceurman sent out an unusual newsletter this week, highlighting his “Larry Land” postcard series with his own personal photography and his Larry humorous wisdom. You can see his newsletter here. Just a reminder that Larry will be performing a family story time at Whitehall Public Library on Wednesday, July 9 at 6 p.m.
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End Book Banning with Pocono Liars club 6/21
A crew of us from Parisian Phoenix— Angel Ackerman, Larry Sceurman and Joseph Swarctz— will be attending the Pocono Liars Club book expo next week. This free event includes at least a dozen authors primarily from the Pocono region of Pennsylvania, members of the writers group that takes it name from a Philadelphia-based…
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Deadlights Launch Party
On Sunday, June 1, I attended a really fun book launch for Deadlights by Hugo Yelagin at one of my favorite bookstores, Book and Puppet in downtown Easton. Hugo’s debut novel released in April, but as a high school student (and as a procrastinator as he put it) he delayed his official party until now. He…
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Keeping Teens Safe
As I mentioned recently, I recently accepted Geraldine Donaher’s manuscript, Mouth Shut Head Down specifically because of all the reasons other publishers have rejected it. Geraldine wanted to create a young adult novel that would call attention to sex trafficking and help protect teenagers from traffickers who often enter their lives as “romeos.” The…
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Ralph-I-am on Green Eggs and Ham
Author and musician Ralph Greco Jr. appeared on the podcast The Broad Sound with Ethan Warren. They discussion perfection. The host asked Ralph to pick a perfect piece of art and he chose Green Eggs and Ham, which is also one of my favorites. He did a shout out to the Echo City Capers books around minute…
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