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 …
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a riveting article that gave visual context to Jeff Bezos’ wealth, Chalabi proves a dab hand both at getting frank admissions from her interviewees about money and using surveys and statistics to put their individual experiences into broader economic contexts. She’s frank about her own situation, too, as she …
Created by Congress in 1870, the Department of Justice, has, on occasion, been a force for the good, writes Maddow, MS NOW host and author (Drift, 2012, etc.). More often, she adds, it has been abused to protect the interests of corporations, corrupt politicians, and self-serving presidents. In her fiery retelling of the DOJ’s checkered …
No one knows his real name, or exactly what he looks like. He’s been fleecing women for years, and he’s too smart to be caught. Despite a robust “r/WeWillFindYou” Reddit thread tracing the shadowy man’s many crimes, no one can clearly identify him—so they call him “Mr. Disappear.” No one knows him, that is, except …
A year ago, vampire Sophronia Vega changed the world with a dating app. A vampire-human dating app, to be specific. After a century of coexistence and potentially dangerous intimacy, humans and vampires who want to hook up can now take a simple test and use her app, Stokr, to find out immediately whether “safe direct …
Bishop (vice president of product development at The Center for Leadership Studies) and Goldsmith (an executive coach and prolific leadership author) here combined their experience to provide a guide to individualized leadership coaching that focuses on adaptability. The authors themselves adapt the well-known Situational Leadership Model into a Situational Coaching Model. In Part 1, they …
My ALLi author guest this episode is Mark Baker, who writes historical fiction, fantasy, and travel memoir. After a career in technical writing, Mark turned to independent publishing because he refused to let traditional genre conventions dictate the stories he wanted to tell. He also writes a popular Substack about literature and storytelling. The post …
The author is the descendant of Jewish Germans who were sent to concentration camps when Nazism rose in their country, while the rest of their family were able to immigrate to the United States throughout the 1930s. In these pages, Neuburger offers a partially fictionalized account, focusing on three connected German nuclear families over two …
Reedsy has become synonymous with connecting indie authors who care about quality with editors and professionals who know how to provide it. Now it has relaunched Reedsy Discovery to provide indie authors access to high-quality editorial reviews that can be used across platforms. The program, which costs $299, will provide a 350-word review within 30 …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway explains what Amazon’s switch from Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus means for authors. That includes a separate royalty pot for audiobooks, pay per page listened, and which ACX and Virtual Voice titles qualify. He also looks at the midnight launch parties for Sarah J. …
Some self-published authors have been waiting the better part of a year for payments from Barnes & Noble Press. We are now asking affected authors to help us establish the extend of the problem and get it fixed. What happened?… The post Unpaid by Barnes & Noble Press? Help Us Count the Cost appeared first …