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 …
My ALLi author guest this episode is Sheila M. Averbuch, a former journalist and technology publisher who spent years pursuing her dream of writing for children. More recently, she embraced independent publishing as a way to share what she learned from her own long and sometimes difficult path to publication and to help other writers …
While delivering a sermon as First Elder at his Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) church in Florida in 2008, Daley was inspired by the agricultural imagery of the remote village of Slipe, Jamaica, where he grew up. His story, which drew immense interest from both church members and his own children (who were raised in the United …
One day, 23 years ago, everyone who was celebrating a 50th birthday awakened looking half their age (“It appears there has been some unexplainable biological event,” a news anchor reports). This phenomenon, known as the Reset, is now a common occurrence. Like all those inching toward their 50th, lawyer Tom Miller of Holly Springs, North …
Young Betty, who has pale skin, blue eyes, and short blond hair, is a master of putting off bedtime, and she knows just the thing that will keep her mother engaged: “Can we talk about the Apple Festival?” she asks. It’s just the prompt her mother needs to discuss the wonders of the real-world Murphysboro …
We end with an update on a story I reported on a week or so back, the collapse of the Self-Publishing Partnership (SPP). You will recall that authors had received emails seemingly out of the blue notifying them that the company would cease trading. This left authors with unpaid royalties and print books left in …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway looks at the retro tech boom driving an unexpected CD revival — and what Gen Z’s love of physical media means for print books. He then digs into a contested new study, cited by the AAP and Authors Guild, that links rising library e-lending …
It’s been a week or so since we had news of a new survey. As this is an AI-related survey, it also provides the opportunity to roll our AI stories for the week into a single column (assuming, of course, nothing else breaks in the next few days. Which is, I’ll admit, a big assumption). …
In this new series, with its down-home appeal, Mac McCarty has dodged death during WWI dogfights and while racing his motorcycle on the lethal backcountry circuits. Now his current boss, attorney Asa Burton, has helped wealthy Isaac Anderson transfer his zinc mine to his prodigal son, Andy, in hopes of instilling some sense of responsibility …
Nina Jacobs has learned to maneuver through corporate Silicon Valley with her job in marketing at Panopteia, the world’s most powerful technology company. Having worked tirelessly to climb the corporate ladder, she risks everything when she (literally) bumps into Vincent Stone at a work event, spilling champagne all over the genius engineer behind Panopteia’s foundational …
On the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, host Howard Lovy talks to editor and author Roz Morris about what professional editing really costs and what authors get for their money. They discuss how editors set their rates, hourly versus fixed pricing, why some manuscripts require more work than others, choosing the right editor for your book, …