Category: reflection

• fiction from the publisher nonfiction reflection review

  My five-star reads of 2024

  This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.

  30 Dec 2024
• from the publisher reflection

  My house is haunted… by the pages of printing past

  I got an email last week from someone who borrowed my novelette Not the Quiet French Kid in ebook format from her local library. She took the time to contact me and told me that her grandfather once lived in my house. I purchased my house with my husband twenty years ago…

  27 Dec 2024
• reflection review

  Lessons from George Carlin

  After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…

  26 Dec 2024
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Applause for banning the ban

  New Jersey seems to be bucking the book banning trend by banning… book banning. Author Ralph Greco Jr. reflected on this in a recent blog entry on the website, FU I’m from New Jersey. I’ve been watching a lot of The Sopranos lately, so maybe it’s just New Jersey on…

  11 Dec 2024
• from the publisher nonfiction reflection

  10 Little Rules

  November proved to be hectic here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing, so I should not have been surprised when I received a phone call from author Larry Sceurman. He had opened his box of bookmarks for his new children’s book, Bookworm’s Magical Journey, and the box contained bookmarks for Kathleen Goggin‘s…

  1 Dec 2024
• from the publisher parisian phoenix author parisian phoenix staff reflection

  SAFETY & SECURITY WHILE TRAVELING SOLO

  A Useful Dozen List for the Prepared Traveler By Angel R. Ackerman and Thurston D. Gill Jr. Angel’s introductory note: When I went to Sex Down South in Atlanta in early September, I drove the whole trip alone. I hadn’t traveled alone in 25 years, except for the occasional trip…

  12 Nov 2024
• reflection review

  On bookstores and Bibles

  If you are a regular around here, you may know that Gayle Hendricks and I went to Massachusetts November 2 so that we could visit the museum of printing. We also visited Mystic, Connecticut; Andover, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; and New Haven, Connecticut. Bookstores E.H. Jacobs held his book launch for…

  6 Nov 2024
• nonfiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Nancy Scott sharing our anthology with Magnets & Ladders

  Last year, Parisian Phoenix tabled at an event with Disability Pride PA at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Nancy Scott wrote about the experience and created an essay of writing prompts that appeared in the current issue of Magnets and Ladders. Magnets and Ladders is a disability-themed publication. You can read…

  4 Nov 2024
• reflection

  A journalistic pre-election perspective

  I received my first official paycheck from a newspaper while still in high school. A small local sports-themed weekly wanted to expand into a community “good news” weekly and asked me to write one feature a week to make this happen. This was in the early 1990’s and I want…

  30 Oct 2024
• events reflection

  Arts & Crafts & Words

  The fourth week of the month is always hairy for me because my local public library’s board meets, of which I am vice president, and my local writers’ group meets, and of that I am president. Plus, if you’re like me, the mundane items like bills and finances seem to…

  26 Oct 2024