Veteran educator and author Margaret Stenerson announces the release of two powerful books that shine a light on the transformative power of knowledge, curiosity, and lifelong learning: My Noble Profession (Third Edition) and The Joy of Knowing: Everyday Wonders and Science Stories. Together, these titles offer a heartfelt tribute to teaching as a calling, and …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway warns indie authors about a major PHP vulnerability affecting WordPress.org sites and WooCommerce, and explains what to ask your web host. He then covers three platforms with new money-making options: Spotify’s new Memberships for podcasters, Kindle Unlimited passing $5 billion in author payouts, and …
It’s Sam’s last day as the janitor aboard an intergalactic space station, and his best friend Kai is throwing a retirement party to celebrate. But things quickly go south when a mysterious epidemic turns the station’s residents into zombielike creatures that feed on flesh and subsume victims into a giant mega-monster. The only thing that …
Psychologist Marjorie “Jorie” Holmes lives in a society where women control everything; following an event known as the Shift, men are no longer around, and the creations of men, including books, have been eradicated. The purpose of this was to “expunge the negative effects of the patriarchal system,” as men are considered “brutal, bloodthirsty, barbaric …
Stretching from the 1820s to the 1970s, this novel tells a sweeping story anchored by the matriarchs of two interconnected families in Oceania. The prologue, titled “Three Dreams of Grandmother,” introduces motifs that recur throughout: trees, song, water, the kingfisher bird. These images are the family inheritance and take on meaning only as the story …
Enrique Pedraza is a 17-year-old high school senior in San Antonio. Even though his father insists that “Mexicans don’t play tennis,” Enrique loves the sport. As the best player in his district, he has the chance to teach at a kids’ summer camp at St. Benedict’s, a local college, in exchange for free lessons. On …
Emily Castillo is a struggling Mexican American writer barely subsisting as a high school English teacher when her brilliant and socially awkward tech bro ex-boyfriend, Theo Smith, makes her an AI assistant. Emily has an MFA from Iowa and a few published short stories but no agent and only a partially completed novel. Without her …
How does one become the CEO—or, as this book puts it, the “Chief Evolution Officer”—of their own life? This self-help book borrows themes from the business world to direct readers toward better balance in their lives. Each of 22 chapters contains explanations of the author’s ideas, which revolve around the concepts of “Vision,” “Purpose,” “Values,” …
We are used to seeing class actions taken by rights holders against tech firms who have used their works to train large language models. But recently there has been a succession of individual copyright claims brought by authors against Meta. The post News Summary: 300 Authors File Individual Copyright Claims against Meta; Spotify Launches Podcast …
London Overhead, a fantastical city above London, is invisible except to its winged human Librae. Eleven-year-old Astrid, new to this world, loves London Overhead and was eager to finally fledge—and fly. Disastrously, though, her wings don’t work, which may spell banishment, a fate her unfledged Pakistani British friend, Pent, also faces. A monthlong festival brings …
Louna, a rising pop star on her first stadium tour in Marseille, is a famous face hiding a buried identity. Backstage after her set, an intruder startles her with words in Arabic: “I found you, Jamila”—revealing by the use of her birth name that someone from her past has tracked her down. Ten years earlier, …