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NaNoWriMo Realities
Day 0: Went to bed thinking of how this new novel would start. Day 1: Woke up by alarm excited for the day and cranked out 769 before work. That’s nearly 800 words before 6 a.m. This is going to be easy! Later I did another 100 or 200 works,…
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Final Day of the Easton Book Festival 2022: Small Press Expo
We attended the small press book expo at Easton Book Festival 2022 today, selling our own books, Nancy Scott’s chapbooks and William D. Prystauk’s Kink Noir series. It was a lovely autumn day with new friends from Pink Trees Press from New York City. We visited with friends from Book…
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My Love of Poetry is not Gone, an exploration of poetry, part 1 of 3
Guest Post on Writing Poetry By Ruchi Acharya Publisher’s note: As part of the Parisian Phoenix mission, we publish unique voices and diverse perspectives in print and online. So, this week, we will explore poetry with Indian author Ruchi Acharya. Our favorite line in today’s installment is, “Poetry has the…
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Publisher Angel Ackerman promotes “Fashion & Fiends” at Easton Book Festival with Sex in the Text
**author’s note: I’m sorry, not sorry, that this piece has become rather long and a tad historical. I will divide the piece with subheadings so that … A successful romp at Easton Book Festival: Sex in the Text
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Getting ready for a conversation about (writing) sex
Angel Ackerman and William Prystauk will be hosting a live conversation about writing sex scenes at Book and Puppet Company this Saturday night (October 22, 7:30 p.m.) as part of the Easton Book Festival. The event is free and open to anyone 18 or older. Last night Angel went through…
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Come one, come all, to the Easton Book Festival
Easton Book Festival launches Friday night, October 21, and will extend through October 30. Many familiar Parisian Phoenix names will be a part of the festival:
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Podcast Review: Firebug by Truth Media
Yes, at Parisian Phoenix we publish books. But, a good story can be told in many ways. Firebug recently caught my eye on Spotify, and I binged the podcast during two shifts at the day job. I thought documentarian who organized the series did a fantastic job of linking interviews…
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So, do you plan to NaNoWriMo?
When I was still a board member at Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, someone in the membership mentioned this new-ish thing called NaNoWriMo, which I see now was founded in 1999. This would have been circa 2005, because my now high-school-graduate was a toddler. And I’m not sure, but I…
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Murphy, you’re not going to win: How a Great Day Broke my Heart, part 2
Part 1 of this blog post appeared on Angel Ackerman’s web site, angelackerman.com, and was reposted on ParisianPhoenix.com Yesterday, Rosie, the rose gold 13″ MacBook Air with the intel processor that Parisian Phoenix publisher Angel Ackerman bought refurbished from Apple about eighteen months ago when she decided to invest in…
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Murphy, you’re not going to win: How a great day broke my heart, part 1 — Angel Ackerman
This is the first half of the saga of how Parisian Phoenix added a new “staff member”: Midnight Angel, a 13.6″ MacBook Air M2 in, well, midnight. The second half will be part of the Parisian Phoenix blog. Yesterday, I “broke” my dear blind friend Nan out of her independent…
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