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 …
Indie authors are changing the publishing industry. It’s a statement we have been making for well over a decade, and from time to time you will hear publishers on panels hint as much. But now the Association of American Literary Agents has acknowledged as much in writing in the 2026 revision to its delightfully named …
In this Alliance of Independent Authors post, Book Award Adviser Hannah Jacobson explains how anthologies and collections can compete for book awards and how authors and editors can make the most of the recognition. The post Anthology or Collection? Yes, You Can Win Book Awards appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
In this second entry in the author’s Splintered World fantasy saga, readers are transported to the Red Desert / Great Divide Basin area of Wyoming, which has settlements but no modern cities; there is barter and trade but no technology. It’s a place where some people develop superpowers, exerting control over elements like air or …
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports that the Anthropic settlement has received its final legal approval, with nearly half a million titles eligible for a payout of around $3,000 — and legal fees cut to just over $100 million. He covers Simon and Schuster’s second new imprint for indie authors, Simon …
In these pages, McDonnell continues to recount his Hollywood adventures alongside his writing partner, Jim Carlson, spanning the 1970s to the 1980s. The author goes into great detail about each project, this time concentrating on children’s programming and entertainment. He describes the shows, puts them in context of the larger industry, breaks down the individual …
Mama opossum and her three joeys “awaken” as night falls. They “blink,” “clean” their teeth, “dress,” and “emerge” from their treehouse burrow. (While the majority of the text is presented in white font, the verbs are mauve-colored and bolded, catching the reader’s attention as the author proffers examples beginning with each letter of the alphabet.) …
In what could ostensibly be called a “space opera,” Van Shamrai’s novel gets off to a rip-roaring start as a shuttle carrying astrophysicist Gaag Zorb and cryobiologist Zara Espen suddenly crashes over Arabia. The two protagonists emerge from the wreckage to discover a putrid world of sand and fog inhabited by strange humanoid creatures whom …
Dolly Parton’s humble origins in a two-room Tennessee cabin in the Smoky Mountains with no electricity or running water were a surprising beginning for this global superstar. She was born in 1946 as the fourth of 12 children and her early years were characterized by minimal resources, but, as Parton says, they “were rich in …
Drawing much of his material from the annals of both the Nobel Prize and its real (much funnier) offspring, the Ig Nobel Prizes, Kallen dishes up a lively, if sometimes also revolting, smorgasbord of scientific highs and lows. Some of the latter are downright disturbing—such as 1950s CIA experiments that involved administering LSD to unwitting …
In an alternate version of the mid-2020s, global famine, mass extinctions, and the mysterious exhaustion of soil and water all threaten humankind. A corporate-run fascist American government concocted a profitable formula to increase crop production and now holds a world food monopoly—but cancers and birth defects have spiked both at home and abroad. In Minneapolis, …