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, a hoarse ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway covers Amazon’s new KDP limit of two titles per week per format — down from ten, and another move aimed at the flood of AI-generated content. He also looks at a study suggesting AI detector Pangram may be more accurate than its …
Huge thanks to Nate Hoffelder, whose Monday Morning Coffee is always a great collection of links, for pointing me to a really interesting deep dive in The Walrus to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Wattpad. And on that note, happy birthday to Wattpad. The post News Summary: Wattpad Turns 20 with 145 Million Users; …
Little did George Rau know, as a young boy in 1951, that the 10 lizards he caught near Milan, Italy, and brought back to Cincinnati in one of his socks would survive when released into his backyard and spread across the city—75 years later, their population has climbed to one million. The Podarcis muralis maculiventris …
Olivia Sol is a Harmonic who spends her time calculating possibilities and ensuring proper distribution, stabilization, and efficiency in her work for the Heldfast government and in her personal life. As she works to keep her society in balance, she rationalizes cutting off resources to various groups while maintaining compliance within the system’s metrics. When …
In this special episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Howard Lovy interviews Kayleigh Brindley, ALLi’s conference and communications manager, about what authors can expect from SelfPubCon26, taking place online October 17–18. Kayleigh discusses this year’s theme, “The Future of Self-Publishing: What’s Working Now & What’s Next,” and highlights sessions on AI, book marketing, crowdfunding, European markets, …
It’s 1930, and famous movie star Garland Westover is dead. Gracie Perkins and six other girls in the steno pool at Kaplan Talking Pictures are the only people who know this; they are also covering up his murder. Keeping this all a secret proves especially hard for Gracie, a 21-year-old who had been conducting an …
Various timelines unfold across time and space in Eλλas, “as it was then known” (it is now known as the Milky Way). Pandara and Koravo are two lovers from Ksevia, a city in Tristulle. Ksevia’s commune is presided over by Arkdemus, guardian of The Graphia Cometa text, aided by Lohrnum, a drug that promotes “balance …
In her nonfiction debut, Calambichis offers advice and guidance to “those who want to build a food business with passion, discipline and purpose.” She provides worksheets and reference cards designed to translate her organizational ideas into practical real-world applications, focusing on three key frameworks: the “Blueprint Operating Model,” the “Blueprint Profit Framework,” and the “Blueprint …
Mitchell gathers an assortment of essays combining film criticism with personal narrative, covering topics such as his lifelong disabilities, personal relationships, and general existential crises. The films he covers are diverse, leaning mostly independent (with some mainstream classics). For the most part, the author follows the formula of describing a film, providing commentary and criticism, …
Growing up in the violent chaos of South African apartheid in the 1980s and ’90s, Alex Lago and his disillusioned, nihilistic friends have one goal: “Getting out of Joburg alive. That was our African dream.” Lago does escape—barely. After decades away from his hometown, he returns to try to uncover the real history of Bobby …