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 …
Artificial intelligence is changing how readers discover books, and few people have a broader view of that shift than Rob Prime. An indie author, founder of Publishing.co.uk, co-owner of LoveReading, and head of an Amazon marketing agency, Prime joins Orna Ross on the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast to explain how AI-powered search is reshaping book …
Rachel Sinclair is about to turn 40, as her doctors, her friends, and even strangers keep reminding her. As she prepares to enter a new decade, she reckons with her past—from the accidental drowning of her father to the self-centered behavior of her “wacko” mother, and, later, an ectopic pregnancy when she was 29. Since …
The author tells of when, as a lawyer looking for a change of pace, he stumbled into a job as assistant prosecutor in Camden County, Missouri, in the late 2010s. This job was different from anything he’d ever done before, and in these pages, he details the trials and tribulations of starting fresh in a …
Sell More Books with These Seven Promotion Steps We recently launched Sell More Books: ALLi’s Guide to Book Promotion and have been walking through it chapter by chapter in a member-only live series on SelfPubConnect, with replays available for members.… The post Sell More Books with These Seven Promotion Steps appeared first on The Self-Publishing …
It’s been a while since there was an opportunity to get involved in a good old survey. This week, we start a mini roundup of AI-related news with an invitation (to some of you, at least) to get involved in a survey from BISG (Book Industry Study Group) and BookNet Canada. The survey is on …
In 1974, the 21-year-old author, motivated by the early death of his father from a heart attack, embarked on an ambitious attempt to answer two deceptively simple questions: How does one determine the optimal human diet, and what diet would one discover with that method? Spitz clarifies early on that he’s neither a physician nor …
Gladiator Eleanor “Ellie” Skinner triumphs in one more battle to the death in the arena. The reigning powers (called the Thral) of Draconia demand she fight in one grizzly battle a year; her other option is becoming a mother, and Ellie has no interest in raising a child. In Draconia, the men rule—they possess undefined …
“This isn’t just a story about Houdini’s death,” writes surgeon and forensic historical medical researcher Gillespie at the beginning of her book. “It’s a story about how truth disappears—and why, sometimes, it takes science to bring it back.” In these pages, the author provides a brief biography of magician Harry Houdini, from his birth as …
In the 1850s and 1860s, young Emma Thompson travels with her parents across the western United States and into the Utah Territory, where they fall under the sway of a self-declared prophet known as Joseph Morris, who’s left Mormonism to found his own sect, known as the Morrisites. Hailed as the “Lord of the Earth” …
Did you know that the first union in the comic book industry to ratify a contract—Comic Book Workers United—only did so in 2023, over seven decades after the first group of comic workers attempted to organize? The long, winding labor struggles of the industry are just one of the underexplored areas of comics history that …