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 big news of the week is Spotify’s announcement that it is opening up its AI narration tools for audiobooks to all indie authors in the US. Audiobook Creation Tools was the ElevenLabs collaboration with Spotify that had been in beta. It allows authors to turn their books into audiobooks within their Spotify for Authors …
The self-declared “worst” kid in his gifted circle of friends—the one with seemingly no talent for anything except getting into trouble—has spent his final year at Jerome Marco K-8 collecting disaster stories with his Team Bomb Shelter crew: martial arts cousin Adam, science whiz Rover, statistics prodigy Sean, wheelchair-using brainy beauty Helen, bighearted athlete Charlie, …
Elspeth Blackwood and her older sister, Isla, were raised in a family of trusted healers. They live together in a cottage outside Fife with Elspeth’s 4-year-old daughter, Annabel, who’s called Anna. Anna’s father was a sailor who headed out to sea shortly after learning Elspeth was pregnant, never to be heard from again. The two …
When Anna Kamoria was attending her North Carolina high school, she also trained in sword fighting and martial arts with her mother Adelyna’s “handsome, stoic” friend Derrick, and she felt different from her classmates “in a way that made it hard to relate to others.” One night, her mother was murdered by unknown assailants and …
In her debut memoir, Russ interweaves memories of her childhood with an account of her relationship with her partner of 13 years. Brian, who was initially just a friend, had everything that the author coveted and did not yet have herself: confidence, sureness, and capability. When they transitioned to a romantic relationship, Russ leaned heavily …
It’s time to mark your calendar, because SelfPubCon26 is officially open for registration! Register Free + Enter the Prize Draw The global Self-Publishing Advice Conference returns online on 17th–18th October 2026, bringing independent authors from around the world together for… The post SelfPubCon26 Registration Is Open with Big Prizes Up for Grabs appeared first on …
In this debut personal finance book, Herriot introduces readers to the concept of “time freedom,” the idea that wealth doesn’t mean accumulating enough money to retire early—it means securing sufficient income and savings, combined with control over work scheduling, to allow one to move between periods of work and periods of leisure instead of enduring …
Nearly a century of German political and social shifts are translated into human experience in Sacks’ new novel, starting with a 1933 prologue introducing young Klara von Arnsberg—“Narrow all over, sharp at the edges. Hard, a little cruel”—the daughter of a wealthy industrialist family. Klara’s betrayal of Max, her “clever and kind” Jewish friend, is …
Julie wakes one morning to the “BANG / CRASH / BOOOOM” of the Chinese opera “thundering from the TV” while Poh Poh practices her sword dancing. Julie has so many questions. Over egg tarts in Chinatown, Poh Poh spins stories of growing up in China, where Cantonese opera performers frequented her father’s tea house. When …
