Category: review
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Mixing business with pleasure — Angel Ackerman
This post appeared on Angel Ackerman’s personal blog last week, but we thought, in honor of next week’s event for National Independent Book Store Day at Book and Puppet Company in downtown Easton, we would share it here. We want to remind everyone that building a community is important to…
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Books, book reviews and book news
I recently purchased Suzanne Mattaboni’s “eighties novel” Once in a Lifetime and kept it in my purse to keep me company in all the medical waiting rooms. As in my habit, I reviewed the book on Goodreads and tagged the author however I could on social media— and she quoted…
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A new view of a familiar conference, or “because I am a very good assistant.”
Hello, my fellow birds! As publisher of Parisian Phoenix I have made an effort to support as much of the Lehigh Valley literary and artistic community as possible. I was scheduled to volunteer at the Lehigh Valley Book Festival today, as I had tried to be part of the marketing…
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The Death of Big Butch by Larry Sceurman
A small book with big lessons The story, set in the spring of 1974, encapsulates just a few days in the life of 26-yr-old Jimmy and his growing family, but those days manage to impart more joy, sorrow, and lessons learned than some folks experience in a lifetime. Hard-working, and…
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You’ve heard it, but have you acted on it? Support authors via reviews, a how-to
If you’re a reader, and not just the kind of person who occasionally picks up a book but the person who always has a book nearby, you’ve heard this: reviews help authors. It’s why authors recruit advance readers, pay literary publications like Publishers Weekly, and why services like NetGalley* exist.…
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The business of books begins with relationships
Whether you’re an author, a bookseller, a reader or a publisher, the business of books begins with relationships. Any business does. Even though Parisian Phoenix is still young and small, we believe in relationships– relationships rank just as high as our product line. After all, we know we print great…
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Movie Review: M3GAN and BookTube announcement
Greetings everyone! This week got away from me— as some weeks do from all of us I suppose– but I did take a minute to go see the horror satire M3GAN and recorded my thoughts on my personal blog and portfolio, angelackerman.com. I’ll do my best to keep sharing writing-related…
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There’s a whole lot of books on Hulu right now
Eva Parry introduced me (Parisian Phoenix Publisher Angel Ackerman) to Octavia E. Butler. She had read the Xenogenesis series (now Lilith’s Brood from what I can tell) as part of a high school independent reading project. She has been trying to get me to read them for years, but I…
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Grammar Girl may inspire a toast for the historical and fantasy writers (and how our publisher’s day job can help you grow your craft)
That title may be a bit much. But this blog post will contain a lot. We want to inspire. We want to share. We want to reassure. Backstory: The Day Job As a boutique publisher of craft books in its youth, Parisian Phoenix remains a part-time business (ad)venture. Publisher and…
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