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 …
Seventeen-year-old Aria Lendell has always been a hopeless romantic and inveterate daydreamer. But ever since something terrible happened to her identical twin, Cady, her imagination has lost its spark. Aria suddenly starts having lucid dreams at midnight; the fantastical settings offer a reprieve from reality. She shares the dreamworld with Strat Madigan, who attends St. …
Clara Cowan and Seb Bonami meet in London when they’re both at the beginning of their adult lives. Clara dreams of being a director and is already hard at work making films with her obnoxious actor boyfriend. Seb has tried music, modeling, and acting, but none of them feel like a calling to him. It …
It’s the Sunday before Tess Lowell’s second wedding, but the painstaking planning for her union to practically perfect state Senate hopeful Warren Ashley didn’t prepare her for the drama that’s about to unfold over a week at her family’s Cape Cod estate. Because unbeknownst to Tess, her troublemaking brother, Sebastian, invited her ex-husband, Peter Hyun, …
Mia’s got a brand-new diary—and a dream: joining Greenpeace “to save the baby seals.” But her mom is dating her algebra teacher, her crush barely knows she exists, and her dad’s just informed her that she must move to Genovia to learn to be a princess. It’s been decades since the 2000 release of The …
Rosalind knows all too well what happens when patriarchs let their vanity spoil their stewardship of their families’ fortunes. Her own father’s disappearance left her nothing but a pile of bad debts. Although marrying Devon Winterbourne, son of the Duke of Casselmaine, would have secured her future, Rosalind chose the road less traveled, earning her …
Clyde Williams, still haunted by his past in the Median—the mutable world of sleep and spirit—must descend once more into that realm to stop the Weaver from devouring consciousness itself. His fellow Hourglass agents Nat, Ace, and Rose mount their own desperate incursion through “holes…dug through the fabric of reality,” facing warped terrains where nightmares …
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss whether it is legal to use real people’s names in nonfiction, including the limits around copyright, defamation, and writing about deceased public figures. The post Using Real People’s Names in Nonfiction, Pricing an Edit, and Making …
Ever since her spouse died in a horse-riding accident, Ava Garcia has been living in survival mode. She finds herself unable to return to the ranch, Hidden Meadows, where the accident occurred, and she’s spent the past year raising her toddler, Nina, and working overtime as an office assistant. She’s been trying to save enough …
I missed this story when it first came out a fortnight ago (I think because the title of the article by Rakuten Kobo’s Russ Tamblyn is decidedly oblique, so I just moved on). Fortunately the substantive content has generated several more helpfully titled spinout columns since then, so I’m circling back to the original. A …
In this Alliance of Independent Authors post, Book Award Adviser Hannah Jacobson explains how series authors can pursue awards for both individual books and their complete body of work. The post Writing a Series? Here’s How Book Awards Work for You appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.