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 online Self-Publishing Advice Conference (#SelfPubCon26) is almost here! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 17th to Sunday, October 18th, 2026, for two days of expert-led sessions, practical advice, panels, discussions and networking, exploring this year’s theme: The Future of… The post SelfPubCon26: Full Agenda and Speaker Line-Up Announced appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice …
Thomas Grant has long struggled with strange abilities he doesn’t understand, including telekinesis and psychic dreams that seem akin to astral projection. When he joins his girlfriend, Allie Everett, and her parents, Brenda and Joe, on a trip to their hometown of Maple, New York, he finds that all the locals there have an unsettlingly …
“Follow the money” is often a wise phrase when it comes to evaluating studies, and one I advocate regularly in this column (alongside the slightly more arch “they would say that”). Last week saw a rather unexpected development along those lines, as OpenAI decided they wanted to invoke the principle in relation to ongoing legal …
Raised in France by a single mother (who, per the author, reveled in manipulation and emotional abuse), at age 19 Ranucci put an ocean between them by moving to New York City. The New Age movement emerging at the time resonated with her own spiritual questions, feelings of interconnectedness, and hope for transformation and self-knowledge. …
On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to poet and editor Anna Davidson about the art of editing poetry. They discuss what editors look for in a poem, why every word, line break, sound, and even blank space matters, and how editors can help poets strengthen their work without losing their individual …
An unseen narrator who has a story to tell is also tasked with keeping all the participants’ contributions “nice, polite, and appropriate for kids.” Five animals assemble, along with a talking taco, a tan-skinned pirate, and a pale-skinned child astronaut. But as the narrator explains the guidelines (“I want us all to agree you will …
These animals include Monster, a neurologically impaired squirrel who liked to have his best friend, a rabbit, sit on him, to a “militant chicken” named Stephanie who demanded and received obeisance from a German shepherd and a male cat; they also include dogs ranging upward of 75 pounds each who packed into a Toyota Corolla …
It’s the start of the hockey season in October 1992, and Georgina “Georgie” Law is preparing to spend all her free time at the Gardens, cheering on her beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. Georgie is a high school history teacher who inherited season tickets—and an all-consuming love for the team—from her late father. The Leafs, along …
The clock is ticking down to Frankfurter Buchmesse. And that means the countdown is also underway to ALLi’s annual SelfPubCon. Running on October 17–18, SelfPubCon this year tackles a single question that has been implicit in almost everything I’ve been reporting on this year: what is the future of self-publishing? The conference subheading is “What’s …
The “Farm” is a former elementary school converted to the campus of a Baptist women’s recovery program. The author, who is Jewish, arrived there when her financial and social support networks disintegrated and she had lost custody of her children. Through flashbacks, Stone reveals that her once-happy life, full of middle-class creature comforts (“soft bed …