Tag: nonfiction

• events

  Workshops/Opportunities for Writers

  Our other upcoming events include Joseph Swarctz at the newly-reopened Barnes & Noble at the Lehigh Valley Mall, McKenna Graf speaking at her local public library at 12:30 p.m. on August 10 (Bernards Township Library, click here to register), and in September I will be attending Sex Down South in Atlanta where I will be hosting a…

  7 Jul 2024
• from the publisher

  Headshots

  Little things mean a lot. That’s the simple way to put it. But sometimes, things don’t have to be fancy to be fancy to be effective. That’s how I feel about headshots. Authors need a polished headshot. It doesn’t need to be elaborate. You don’t even have to get dressed…

  28 Feb 2024
• new releases news nonfiction

  Phorgotten No More launches today: The African American history of Phillipsburg

  Today— 1/15/2024, strategically for Martin Luther King Jr. Day— Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of the African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021 will launch on all the regular platforms from Barnes & Noble (order now here) to Bookshop.org and that influential online retailer Amazon.com has it listed here. Wayne has collated and poured over…

  15 Jan 2024
• craft tips events reflection

  Engaging in Craft without Leaving Home

  This one is for the writers, the authors, the wordsmiths. Now that winter is upon us, (first real cold snap here in the Northeast and while I used to walk my daughter to school every day, I can’t take the cold now. Gone are the days of walking in -10…

  30 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Christmas Cookies, revisited

  Our nostalgic storyteller Larry Sceurman wrote an essay about people’s favorite Christmas cookies last year, and we thought, since it’s Thanksgiving, we’d revisit it. 2022 Publisher’s Note: Larry Sceurman’s debut novella is a rich, nostalgic view of familiar struggles that remain relevant regardless of the historical date. But Larry Sceurman,…

  23 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Letting Go

  And Finding Our True Story >>> Larry Sceurman In my thinking, I have been revisiting the dynamics of three. This mindset that I have about things in threes all started, in my mid-thirties, when I took a course in philosophy and learned about Plato’s philosophy that man, the human being,…

  12 Nov 2023
• events from the publisher nonfiction reflection

  Confessions of a History Nerd

  I love local history. I own Jim Lee’s book on the history of the Warren County, N.J., canal system and a signed copy of Kingdom of Coal by Don Miller and Richard Sharpless. (The two Lafayette professors wrote the book about the history of the Pennsylvania coal regions.) So, it’s…

  7 Nov 2023
• erotica guest blog news

  Ralph Goes Back to School & then to EXXXotica

  By Ralph Greco Jr. I don’t really like to chat, post, blog or talk about myself or my doings, but last week was unusual in that I seemed to have a lot coming my way via my writing. And one extra special event that really tickled my giblets… and without…

  6 Nov 2023
• parisian phoenix author reflection

  Thoughts on Nature

  by Larry Sceurman Technology is a double-edged sword. We need it to sustain and prosper in the world today. At the same time, it puts a wedge between us and nature, the very essence of our soul. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein…

  14 Oct 2023
• nonfiction Uncategorized

  cover evolution

  On Sunday, Angel sent me a draft of The FURR Itty-Bitty “How To Cat” Book. The first page said something like ‘Cover. Maybe we can use both the FURR and Parisian Phoenix logos’. The problem is that the styles clash, even though they are both very stylized. The colors are…

  16 Aug 2022