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 …
In this new series, with its down-home appeal, Mac McCarty has dodged death during WWI dogfights and while racing his motorcycle on the lethal backcountry circuits. Now his current boss, attorney Asa Burton, has helped wealthy Isaac Anderson transfer his zinc mine to his prodigal son, Andy, in hopes of instilling some sense of responsibility …
Nina Jacobs has learned to maneuver through corporate Silicon Valley with her job in marketing at Panopteia, the world’s most powerful technology company. Having worked tirelessly to climb the corporate ladder, she risks everything when she (literally) bumps into Vincent Stone at a work event, spilling champagne all over the genius engineer behind Panopteia’s foundational …
On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to editor and author Roz Morris about what professional editing really costs and what authors get for their money. They discuss how editors set their rates, hourly versus fixed pricing, why some manuscripts require more work than others, choosing the right editor for your book, …
President James Frederick Herdener is a swaggering, self-aggrandizing populist whose constant self-comparisons to past presidents may remind readers of certain current political figures (Herdener on George Washington: “Washington, he was a schmuck. Not that good a general”). Evil, scheming billionaire Rudolph Conover sees Herdener less as a leader than as an opportunity. A reclusive oligarch …
Each month, the students in Miss Brady’s class vote for a new class president. Upon winning, Cooper immediately makes some changes, handing out extra snacks…but only to those who voted for him. Cooper shirks his presidential responsibilities and favors some students over others. Soon, he is making rules for the whole school: Students must wear …
“Some secrets protect imperial power, some secrets protect the people oppressed under said power.” Beginning with the Byzantine scholar Procopius’s The Secret History, an early-medieval text that promised to reveal the sordid secrets of the Byzantine emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora, Betancourt ponders the role of secrecy in past eras and its continuing appeal …
The book begins with a broad, sweeping definition of trauma: “If it feels traumatic to you, it is,” says the author. Killion offers an eight-step process for moving forward after trauma. Step One is determination, or becoming “willing to do the work to become unstuck.” The goal is to turn the “pain into a scar …
We start with some big news in the audiobook sphere. That news comes from the world of Nordic audiobook companies, where Sweden’s Bonnier, owner of the BookBeat platform, has fully bought audiobook platform Nextory. That this was positioned in the Publishing Perspectives report on the story as a challenge to Storytel is a suitable reminder …
Leda Balni celebrates her 15th birthday with the charismatic but thuggish Nico Salisi; now dating, they’ve come a long way since their combative relationship as children, but they’re still not quite synced. Nico, unlike Leda, has zero interest in books, philosophy, or emotional conversations. Instead, he’s consumed by lust, while Leda is sexually curious but …
At 42, New Hampshire ski salesman Frank Cadwallader has settled into an increasingly lifeless marriage. A lifelong Quaker, he joins a peace mission to the Soviet Union, but the first cracks in his familiar world appear before he leaves—Russian lessons lead to an obsession with his alluring teacher, Olga, whose own titillating secrets prove nearly …