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  Exploring Summer Vacation

  A seasonal essay by Larry Sceurman My lovely wife, Barbara, and I were discussing where we should go on vacation. Then, we started to reminisce about the vacations that we had taken in the past. That conversation led us to chat about what vacations we had with our families and…

  3 Jun 2024
• coming soon from the publisher

  Introducing Larry’s Stories on Substack

  Yesterday I spent some time with Larry Sceurman, author of The Death of Big Butch and the short story collection Coffee in the Morning. Working with his wife, Barbara, we constructed a basic Substack. Larry’s new Substack newsletter “Larry’s Stories” will feature his philosophical musings from his own life experience,…

  14 Mar 2024
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  Attitude, by Larry Sceurman

  The other day, I was at a gathering of old friends. You might say folks of the same spirits. Most of the men and women there were older than sixty-five. I would say seventy plus was the majority. When I walked into the room, the first person I noticed was…

  19 Apr 2023
• coming soon events

  Press Release: Event with Book and Puppet to support indie bookstores, the arts and poetry in downtown Easton April 29

  For immediate releaseFor more information contact:Angel R. Ackerman, publisherangel@parisianphoenix.com Celebrating National Independent Bookstore Day, Arts Community of Easton Open Studio Tour, National Poetry Month & New Books from Local Authors LEHIGH VALLEY, PA— Parisian Phoenix Publishing and Easton’s Book and Puppet Company will host events at the bookstore; April 29…

  6 Apr 2023
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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…

  23 Mar 2023
• coming soon new releases reflection

  Why We Read: I don’t think it’s escape

  We often hear that readers read books to escape, but I think it’s more complex than that. I think, sure, if we had to describe succinctly the allure of reading that would be it. I’ve been a writer for decades. And if I it weren’t for personal health issues*, I…

  21 Mar 2023
• coming soon new releases

  The Big Butch cover shoot: The team unites in the creative process

  Joan Zachary met Parisian Phoenix publisher via the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group in the late 1990s/early 2000s. It was definitely before the cover model for yesterday’s The Death of Big Butch photo shoot at Steve’s Café in Phillipsburg, N.J. Now, Joan is still hard at work with her new…

  26 Nov 2022
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  Nostalgia and Baby Seats: Welcoming a New Author to the Parisian Phoenix Family

  

  I’ve been working with storyteller Larry Sceurman of the Lehigh Valley Storyteller’s Guild for a couple of months now. He approached me after Joan Zachary gave a presentation on photography’s role in book layout and as inspiration for the creative process during a Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group meeting in…

  1 Oct 2022