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 …
Big news for midweek. And it’s also very succinct news. Amazon has made another adjustment to the number of permitted titles you can upload through KDP. As Jane Friedman helpfully reminded in the latest edition of The Bottom Line, the first such limiting move came as far back as 2023. The previous limit of ten …
Bentley explores the difficult reality of being a doctor during the Covid pandemic: “The health care system, the people in it providing the care, were stretched beyond capacity.” While the story follows Bentley’s treatment of an array of patients, the larger tale is the author’s excessive self-criticism. Working herself to the bone, Bentley relied on …
The author explains in his introduction that he wanted to create pieces that “hung there in midair, suspended” without categorizing them as prose poetry, flash fiction, or micro-fiction. The very short entries presented here, sometimes only spanning a few pages, generally introduce a single character, capture one consequential moment, and culminate with an ironic reversal. …
On the eve of his Full Horn Ceremony, young faun Panmiel is playing in the forest when he meets Hobkin, a satyr. They spend the day together, learning about their differences, but also their similarities. Despite being told all his life that satyrs are evil, Pan can’t help but see Hobkin as a friend who …
“Hank takes this stuff seriously,” hunter Randy Newberg stresses in Buck, Buck, Moose’s 10th anniversary foreword. Over nearly 300 pages of hunting stories, butchery guides, and recipes, readers will surely come to agree—Hank does take this stuff seriously. Shaw, a former restaurant cook, has made a career out of welcoming curious readers to the “wild food …
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, internationally renowned glass artist Mark Eliott joins Anna Featherstone to show how a published book doesn’t need to stay in a fixed format over the years. Mark’s Essence of Cloud project began as improvised glass cloud sculptures, grew into a novel and an art exhibition, and …
It’s August 2005 in Hartless, a small, dusty town in the Texas Panhandle. Kindergarten teacher Helen McCabe, in her mid-50s, has just finished the first week of school, hoping that her class will help her find her mooring again. Her husband, Hal, recently died in a car crash; he drove into an intersection, just as …
In a curious and visually unique combination of words by former New York Times reporter Black and page designs (“visualization”) by illustrator Lehrer, this book portrays the author’s experiences dealing with grief after his mother’s unexpected death. The minimal text Black provides is scattered sparingly across the book’s pages, often with just a single word on …
Whether it was losing his parents or the dissolution of his nearly 25-year marriage, whenever the pain of loss became too great for him to bear, Mirasole looked to the open road for escape. “I’d come home from those roads different in some way I couldn’t name—quieter, maybe, or more willing to be alone with …
The Speakies are the newer UK-based relative (technically the British Audio Awards) of the US’ Audies Awards, celebrating the best of the year’s audiobooks. Like the Audies, the Speakies are open to indie titles, which is why I make sure to spend some time scouring the shortlists and winners when they appear. And this past …