Category: reflection

• from the publisher reflection Uncategorized

  The Breakfast Club (with author Laurel Wenson at Plants & Coffee) and Readers in the Wild

  I’m behind on things– perhaps my own fault because I got distracted at my local public library yesterday and perhaps gave myself some time to read when I should have been writing. One of my goals for this year is to read more current fiction and to read popular fiction.…

  4 Jan 2024
• nonfiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Larry’s Christmas Letter 2023: Animals & the Nativity Scene

  I was thinking about what to write this year for Christmas, and the nativity came into mind. As I looked at different artwork and photographs of the nativity, it appeared to me that there are typically four elements within the nativity. First is Mary, Joseph, and the Christ child, which…

  24 Dec 2023
• from the publisher reflection

  Top 10 Things I have learned about publishing in 2023

  – People always think they have too many books. – People don’t like to take chances on new authors in random places. – Book publishing has tight profit margins. – Sometimes the book you want to make costs too much money. – People say they will review your book but most…

  22 Dec 2023
• fiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Echo City Year End Wrap Up

  By Ralph Greco Jr. Let me jump in here, as I sometimes do when Baxter will allow me… Joe and I had quite the year, and we wanted to thank everybody who made it possible and, yes, I guess, brag a bit. From securing our first-ever bookstore signings/appearances—at two Barnes…

  20 Dec 2023
• fiction reflection review

  All the Light We Cannot See: About time we see a heroic, female blind protagonist

  Netflix recently released their four-episode adaption of the historical fiction novel All the Light We Cannot See. And of course now I want to read it. The women in my local public library book club recommended the small screen adaptation since we were reading another World War II historical fiction.…

  3 Dec 2023
• 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