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Hunting among urban decay and industrial ruins for spaceships
Part of creating Parisian Phoenix meant having a vision and surrounding that vision with the talent to realize that vision. Angel Ackerman spent 15 years as a journalist where she learned a variety of tricks from professional photographers. In the early days of her marriage to poet Darrell Parry, Angel…
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Messages from the street team
Publisher Angel Ackerman just posted this to her personal blog… At work today, by my math, I did 102% in my home department folding clothes— 159 fixes to be exact during a ten-hour shift that started with a 20+ … Messages from the street team
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Reviewing Shannon Gonyou’s Since Sinai
At Parisian Phoenix, we believe in supporting other authors, other publishers and other artists. To that extent, publisher Angel Ackerman participates as a reader and reviewers on NetGalley and shares what she is reading on Goodreads and social media. The publishing world presents a lot of “us” (as small independent…
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Give Poetry a Chance
It’s National Poetry Month, so it only makes sense for one of the poets of the Parisian Phoenix family to weigh in with a blog post. I’m not positive, but I get the feeling that most non-poets envision poetry events as a bunch of uppity snobs reciting John Keats and…
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Seasons of books and publishing
I started pitching my book, Manipulations, the first volume of the Fashion and Fiends series, to traditional publishers and agents about 20 years ago. At the time, ebooks had not hit mainstream. Amazon had not yet transformed vanity publishing into self-publishing. My work was quirky and complex even then and…
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Advice from my English teacher and updating Goodreads, part one
I went to a small rural high school but I was extremely fortunate to have gifted teachers and a strong curriculum. Several teachers proved influential in my development as a writer— but because of my participation in the school newspaper (which was an English class at my high school: journalism…
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