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 …
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a week dominated by good news for readers and indie authors alike. He covers new social reading partnerships — Kobo with StoryGraph, and Everand with Fable — that let readers track, share, and experience books together. He reports on the American Booksellers Association’s announcement …
Greyson Grim is a grumpy old man—and understandably so. After all, as the current owner of the world, he’s solely responsible for ridding it of all the bad things in it, which are referred to in the ownership manual as “Thingamajigs.” According to the hefty tome, the only way to void the world of its …
Fourteen-year-old friends Nick Yarrowby and Khenan Kimetto are looking for a way to earn enough money to fly to Boston to see the Bruins hockey team play, since their single parents can’t afford to send them. A crime-scene cleanup TV show gives Khenan an idea—and Gross Busters is born. The boys’ “no job too foul” …
How much should e-books cost? It’s one of the most divisive questions of the past fifteen years or so (in our small corner of the world at least), right up there with perennials like pineapple on pizza. The sub-question of this wider question that caused so much angst just before Covid is how much libraries …
In this member-first Q&A on the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, ALLi nonfiction adviser Anna Featherstone walks authors through how to write, publish, and promote nonfiction that sells—covering how to test market demand, what makes a book stand out, and the most common pricing and production mistakes. She shares practical, low-cost marketing tactics, from direct outreach …
“It is still not widely known in the United States just how deeply mambo and Cuban son seeped into American popular music,” writes Radanovich Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré (2015). In this biography of bandleader, composer, and “King of the Mambo” Pérez Prado, Radanovich seeks to remedy this by using …
< Many books have been freed from censorship by courts, James Joyce’s Ulysses and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover being only two of the most noteworthy. Aycock, a North Carolina writer and librarian who has devoted much of his life to the freedom of literary access, argues that another case matters. In 1982, the Supreme …
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) wasn’t the world’s most recognizable film director for his dashing good looks. In Young’s deep dive into the Master of Suspense’s approach to costuming his actors, she hypothesizes that there was “a wish fulfillment to Hitchcock’s filmmaking as he fantasized about being as suave and debonair as Cary Grant in impeccable tailoring, …
For all the ways that writers have anatomized the 1964 Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night, no one has approached it like Ahmed. An English broadcaster and the daughter of South Asian immigrants, she fell for the Beatles in 1979 at age 11 while watching videos of the band’s films. She views A Hard Day’s …
I tend not to cover national legislation stories, but this week’s opener is a bit of a milestone. It will be of direct relevance to many and sets a fascinating legal precedent that everyone will want to track. In a landmark move, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed the Publisher Conduct Requirement …