Category: reflection

• from the publisher reflection

  The Power of a Book Plate

  So yesterday, I spent the afternoon with author and friend William Prystauk, who, while he does not publish novels with us, contributes to every project and event where I extend him an invitation (Easton Book Festival, Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money, and Juicy…

  14 Jan 2024
• from the publisher reflection

  How Many Books Should a Book Publisher Buy?

  So, I made a pledge for 2024– to read more books that are popular, that come recommended, that support local and/or self-published authors, books from booktok and well, books I don’t expect to like. But, as of right now, we are a small independent book publishing company that does not…

  12 Jan 2024
• events reflection

  Friends of Pete at the Pomfret Club

  Happy Wednesday– this week (with the snow of last weekend, the rain and wind storm of last night and the about-time arrival of winter temperatures) has been moving both slowly and quickly. Today, Darnell Davis and Pete Reinke of the Friends of Pete networking group hosted a Lunch N Learn…

  10 Jan 2024
• reflection Uncategorized

  More thoughts for the New Year

  Thurston Gill, author of The Phulasso Devotional: Engineering the Warrior Priest, sent out another addition of his Substack newsletter: Phulasso Living The Year 2024: Time to Press the Reset Button Greetings, Like most people, I am planning to take the opportunity to use the beginning of our new calendar year to press the…

  9 Jan 2024
• reflection

  My belated New Year’s wisdom

  On actual New Year’s Eve, I felt compelled to tackle a project that has stricken darkness into my soul for months. I cleaned my bedroom closet. That closet had me stuck. I wasn’t putting my clean laundry away as diligently as I should and I had started stuffing things in random places…

  7 Jan 2024
• 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