Category: reflection

• craft tips events reflection

  Engaging in Craft without Leaving Home

  This one is for the writers, the authors, the wordsmiths. Now that winter is upon us, (first real cold snap here in the Northeast and while I used to walk my daughter to school every day, I can’t take the cold now. Gone are the days of walking in -10…

  30 Nov 2023
• from the publisher reflection review

  From One Extreme to the Other: Recent Placements featuring Parisian Phoenix

  There’s no such thing as bad publicity. And as you may have noticed– we’re not exactly shy over her at the Parisian Phoenix nest. We’ve mentioned our erotic book offerings (and why we published them) and regularly update you as to Ralph Greco Jr.‘s publicity and work on erotic titles.…

  27 Nov 2023
• coming soon from the publisher reflection

  An Amazon.com story: The Good and Bad of Innovation

  In her workshop to the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group last weekend, Laurel Olsen Wenson mentioned her favorite book, Farenheit 451, and added the caveat, “and I’m not a science fiction fan, but that book resonated with me.” We are living in the science fiction world that Ray Bradbury and…

  25 Nov 2023
• from the publisher reflection

  The 2023 Parisian Phoenix Gift Guide

  Hello, all my feathered friends. If you’re in the United States, we had an early Thanksgiving this year. And this weekend is perhaps the most American long weekend one could possibly design— a celebration of gluttony and genocide on yesterday, rampant commercialism and greed on today, and by Monday we’re…

  24 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Christmas Cookies, revisited

  Our nostalgic storyteller Larry Sceurman wrote an essay about people’s favorite Christmas cookies last year, and we thought, since it’s Thanksgiving, we’d revisit it. 2022 Publisher’s Note: Larry Sceurman’s debut novella is a rich, nostalgic view of familiar struggles that remain relevant regardless of the historical date. But Larry Sceurman,…

  23 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Larry’s Thanksgiving Gratitude Personality Test

   A Quiz written for Thanksgiving 2023     Gratitude >>> By Larry Sceurman We sometimes experience providence or divine grace, a gift to our heart and spirit, which most of the time we accept without question. On the other hand, gratitude is a choice. We must choose to be grateful.…

  20 Nov 2023
• craft tips reflection review

  Journals for ourselves and for our writing: A Day with Laurel Olsen Wenson

  This month, Lehigh Valley author Laurel Olsen Wenson presented the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group with a program on various types of journaling and then turned that information into a workshop of using journaling, both in the text and behind the scenes, as a resource for character development. Types of…

  19 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher reflection Uncategorized

  Power of People, Part 2

  Lunch N Learn with Friends of Pete With the Office of DEI at Moravian University At the Lunch N Learn event, I had the privilege of weaving my way around my alma mater. I sat with some new and old friends, not sure who would wish to be outed on…

  18 Nov 2023
• events reflection

  Power of People, part 1

  If I could only relay to you three lessons I learned in my print journalism career, they would be: Okay, so number three goes back to where I was a reporter, not craft, but there is nothing like the power of those three lessons. You can learn to write a…

  17 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Letting Go

  And Finding Our True Story >>> Larry Sceurman In my thinking, I have been revisiting the dynamics of three. This mindset that I have about things in threes all started, in my mid-thirties, when I took a course in philosophy and learned about Plato’s philosophy that man, the human being,…

  12 Nov 2023