Tag: Nancy scott

• nonfiction parisian phoenix author reflection

  Nancy Scott sharing our anthology with Magnets & Ladders

  Last year, Parisian Phoenix tabled at an event with Disability Pride PA at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Nancy Scott wrote about the experience and created an essay of writing prompts that appeared in the current issue of Magnets and Ladders. Magnets and Ladders is a disability-themed publication. You can read…

  4 Nov 2024
• events

  Tentative plans for Easton Book Festival 2024

  Larry Sceurman and I, and perhaps Seneca Blue, will share our experiences writing about local settings in a panel for the Easton Book Festival. That panel will be at 2 p.m. Sunday October 20 at the new location of Book and Puppet Company, our favorite local independent bookseller. The three of us all use the Lehigh Valley…

  25 Aug 2024
• events

  The Book Lovers’ Celebration at Barnes

  On Saturday, we hosted a Book Lovers’ Celebration at Barnes & Noble in the Southmont Shopping Center (Bethlehem Township, Pa.) The book business is hard, especially in the multimedia, quick-and-flashy universe we live in today. People can’t hide like they used to, and, whether you do good things or bad…

  22 Jul 2024
• events

  TODAY at Barnes & Noble Southmont

  One of the first books we released was a romantic comedy, Trapped, featuring a female main character turning 40, curvy, and struggling to make ends meet in a dying steel town. The author, Seneca Blue, adored Joan Zachary’s photographs of the residents of Plastiqueville (if you don’t know them, you can visit Joan’s Substack newsletter here.)…

  20 Jul 2024
• coming soon events

  Book Lovers’ Celebration at Barnes & Noble July 20

  Parisian Phoenix Publishing will have a lot of new titles available at Barnes & Noble on July 20. This is our lineup so far: PLUS, we’re working against the clock to release the updated version of our romantic-comedy Trapped: What if Skunks were Matchmakers with full-color photographs of the residents of Plastiqueville by Joan…

  6 Jul 2024
• from the publisher review

  What I read in February (and the flashlight dilemma)

  I thought it would be fun to share the books I read in February. I think I read ten books in January, but then I had an editing blitz late in the month where I read a lot of novels back to back. And I started watching television instead of…

  25 Feb 2024
• parisian phoenix staff

  Nancy Scott featured in disability anthology

  Our beloved Nancy Scott received her copies of the disability-themed anthology, Behind Our Eyes 3: A Literary Sunburst, featuring three of her works. Behind Our Eyes is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, that supports and inspires the writing of people with disabilities, develops and promotes positive public opinion regarding people with disabilities, provides meaningful…

  9 Feb 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
• events from the publisher Uncategorized

  Girls’ Night Out at Boser Geist

  Last week I got a message from fine artist and art book maker Maryann Riker of Justarip Press. She and I have known each other at least 20 years through my newspaper days in Phillpsburg, N.J. I heard about her art books and asked if I could do a piece…

  29 Dec 2023
• events poetry reflection Uncategorized

  Disability Poetics

  Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…

  26 Oct 2023