As the third entry in the Elemental Witch League trilogy, The Fog raises the stakes to biblical proportions, opening with Satan and the Nephilim unleashing a supernatural “end-of-days” weapon meant to drown the world in terror and death. From there, the novel widens fast—into a globe-spanning, good-versus-evil conflict where a young “Fundamental Witch,” Susan, and her …
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 …
The Jesus Trail: Following in the Footsteps of Christ by Pierce Kelley is a deeply moving and contemplative novel that follows sixteen-year-old Mekhaeil Zacharias, a Coptic Christian, as he undertakes a pilgrimage from Nazareth through the Galilee to Jerusalem. Still reeling from the horrific murder of his two older brothers and nineteen other Coptic Christians …
Ever since her spouse died in a horse-riding accident, Ava Garcia has been living in survival mode. She finds herself unable to return to the ranch, Hidden Meadows, where the accident occurred, and she’s spent the past year raising her toddler, Nina, and working overtime as an office assistant. She’s been trying to save enough …
I missed this story when it first came out a fortnight ago (I think because the title of the article by Rakuten Kobo’s Russ Tamblyn is decidedly oblique, so I just moved on). Fortunately the substantive content has generated several more helpfully titled spinout columns since then, so I’m circling back to the original. A …
In this Alliance of Independent Authors post, Book Award Adviser Hannah Jacobson explains how series authors can pursue awards for both individual books and their complete body of work. The post Writing a Series? Here’s How Book Awards Work for You appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway covers a week dominated by new tools for authors and readers alike. He reports on BookFunnel’s new WooCommerce plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites, Substack’s rollout of paid sponsorships for writers with 100 or more paid subscribers, and the launch of the Book Carbon Calculator, which lets …
The news for the past week or so seems to have been primarily about useful tools for writers. We’ve had decreased friction from BookFunnel and increased revenue opportunities from Substack. Now we have a tool that really helps to connect creators with their audience’s values. It won’t, of course, be for everyone or all audiences. …
Most indie authors know print-on-demand. Pop-up and movable books inhabit a very different world — one of hand-assembly, specialist printers, and minimum print runs that make the economics unlike anything in standard publishing. In this episode, Anna Featherstone talks with Kelli Anderson, paper engineer and author of Alphabet in Motion, about what it actually takes to …
The protagonists in Clark’s short stories seem to yearn for desire itself—to lunge after it and to be left, somehow, with fistfuls of nothing but air. In “The Girl Gets Whatever She Wants,” Chrissy can’t quite track how she and her boyfriend—formerly her weed dealer—ended up together, though she “realize[s] you can fall in love …
Mason James, currently a resident of Hermosa Beach, grew up in San Francisco’s East Bay; he’s back in town after he gets word that his father, Max, was mugged. Max was exiting a card room in Emeryville when he was assaulted. On closer inspection, it appears this was no simple robbery, but rather a targeted …
“It was Halloween 2014, and I had been watching slaughterhouse videos all morning,” writes King-Sonnen. “I didn’t know I was going down the vegan rabbit hole.” She and her husband were on their cattle ranch in Texas, and her sudden “awakening” had her questioning the morality of sending cattle off to be killed at a …
Before I get to Substack, I’ll start with another story signposted by Jane Friedman this week. Be patient, it’s relevant. Tim Ferriss is one of those “public thinkers” most of us will know from somewhere, whether that’s the game-changing and hugely successful book The 4-Hour Workweek (and subsequent “Four Hour” titles) whose wisdoms many of …