{"id":138219,"date":"2024-12-08T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138219"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:43:54","slug":"december-at-parisian-phoenix-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138219","title":{"rendered":"December at Parisian Phoenix Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Sceurman, author of the new dyslexia-friendly children\u2019s book\u00a0<em>Bookworm\u2019s Magical Journey,\u00a0<\/em>will be presenting the story and talking about his experiences as someone with dyslexia at the Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch Wednesday night, Dec. 11, at 6 p.m. The talk is free and people can register here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eastonpl.libcal.com\/event\/13520832\">https:\/\/eastonpl.libcal.com\/event\/13520832<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bookworm\u00a0<\/em>is Sceurman\u2019s third book with Parisian Phoenix Publishing, a local micro-book publisher in Easton founded in 2021. His previous books are nostalgic fiction for adults based in the Lehigh Valley: the novella\u00a0<em>The Death of Big Butch\u00a0<\/em>and the short story collection\u00a0<em>Coffee in the Morning.\u00a0<\/em>All books are available via online retailers, at Book and Puppet Company in downtown Easton, at Blue Flame Events Retail Store in the Palmer Park Mall, and at Barnes &amp; Noble at the Lehigh Valley Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher at Parisian Phoenix Angel R. Ackerman hosts free monthly writing workshops at the Easton Area Public Library Main Branch. Her next workshop is Monday, Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. \u201cWriters Mix Up Mash Up\u201d will allow local writers to advance their projects with a variety of exercises, critique discussion and independent writing time. People can register here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eastonpl.libcal.com\/event\/13551615\"><em>https:\/\/eastonpl.libcal.com\/event\/13551615<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parisian Phoenix has published 30+ books in the last three years, offering authors primarily the Lehigh Valley (but also from across the country: Arizona, Washington, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Florida among them) traditional publishing contracts. Parisian Phoenix highlights unique voices and diverse perspectives that don\u2019t often advance in the commercial book publishing business. They span all genres and have an ambitious schedule of 10+ books for 2025. Erotica author M.Christian will be releasing his short story collection, In Control, with Parisian Phoenix Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/parisianphoenix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ParisianPhoenix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BUY OUR BOOKS:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/ParisianPhoenix\"><strong>Bookshop.org\/shop\/ParisianPhoenix<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER: <a href=\"http:\/\/parisianphoenixpublishing.substack.com\/\">ParisianPhoenixPublishing.Substack.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Sceurman, author of the new dyslexia-friendly children\u2019s book\u00a0Bookworm\u2019s Magical Journey,\u00a0will be presenting the story and talking about his experiences as someone with dyslexia at the Easton Area Public Library &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December at Parisian Phoenix Publishing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PARISIAN-PHOENIX-PUBLISHING.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}