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 …
After a long and lively career, O’Conner, once known as the Warlord of Willow Ridge, has settled into a relaxed lifestyle with longtime girlfriend Gwen Gardner, who owns Fix & Go, a chain of body shops. Phillips’ second O’Conner caper is long on banter, backstories, and outrageously named larger-than-life characters. The opening chapter features wide-eyed …
Former thief Sparrow suffers nightmares stemming from the events in series opener Fateless (2025), and the Deathless King continues to pose a threat throughout the lands. For people to have any chance of fighting back, Sparrow must find an artifact that may bestow upon her the powers of Maederyss, the goddess of Fate. This object …
Ezekiel is an artificial intelligence aboard the spaceship Delphi; the rest of the crew consists almost entirely of humanoid androids from the Solarian civilization. Their mission is to seek out other intelligent lifeforms throughout the galaxy, attempt to contact them, and learn more about them (“Our mission is to learn,” notes Hero, the ship’s captain). …
Blue-eyed Inna Pallo, who dyes her auburn hair blond, is the new heir to the Pallo empire. She’s determined to investigate her sister’s death while training to take over the family business, the illustrious Horizon Club. The club’s allure is based on sprites—insectlike creatures whose magic makes people feel euphoric. The Pallos market the sprites …
A narrator who resembles her author both in name and occupation guides readers through the sexual proclivities and shades of gender expression that populated belle epoque Paris (with a brief digression to Georgian-era Wales). In cafes, cabarets, and opium dens, she introduces us to what translator Careau calls “the sexual underworld”: lesbians and gay men, …
Jan Sorrensen is still scarred from his last encounter with a ghost, an experience that he turned into a bestselling novel, which gave him the funds to invest in a forthcoming tourist attraction: coal mine tours in small-town Dundee, Pennsylvania. The mine that’s set to reopen was the site of a fatal fire back in …
My ALLi author guest this episode is Diane Hatz. Diane spent years in the music industry, working at major and indie record companies, managing a band, and co-founding a fanzine on The Who that ended up in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Years later, she drew on those surreal experiences and turned them …
From a 12-neck guitar to a euphonium that pours beer, there is no limit to the musical instruments a human mind can dream up. In this encyclopedic collection, Loughridge and Patteson expand on their website of the same name to bring an illuminating historical survey of “fictophones.” The chapters are divided into loose taxonomies. “Historical …
As a child, Molly, her older sister, Eileen, and their parents emigrated from New Ross, Ireland, to a bucolic farm in Ohio. Molly’s family members are close friends with their neighbors, the MacLeiths, owners of a profitable sawmill. Once Molly turns 15, she’s courted by one of their sons, Andrew MacLeith. Although Molly is charmed …
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a revealing piece by Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn, who explains why Kobo rejected 45 percent of self-published submissions in 2025 — most of them suspected AI-generated — and frames the decision as a “book community first” choice over a “readers first” approach. Dan …