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 …
Like many writers I have an email newsletter (though unlike many of my more disciplined colleagues I am not fastidious about posting to it regularly). It is not the platform I use, but the highest-profile longform email newsletter platform is Substack. It is also the one that tries hardest to engage with the writing and …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway sorts through new Authors Guild clarifications on the Anthropic settlement: payments should still begin trickling through from November, but rights-reversion disputes are clouding who gets paid what, and authors whose rights reverted by August 10, 2022 are advised to claim their full 100 percent …
In 2036, Abigail Thompson, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working as an intern for the summer at Intelligenics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a traumatic childhood in Baltimore, she’s now focused on her future. She’s eager to rise through Intelligenics’ ranks, so she arranges to show off her “intelligent network administration …
Senya, with her angelic healing powers, barely escapes a religious cult; Nell, the Crown Princess of Aesterland, flees an arranged marriage and the destruction of her country; and Siegfried the assassin travels with them, intent on avenging his family. The trio join forces against the Jenseiters, a growing political force spreading across their nations thanks …
Before anything else, a point of clarification after reading Jane Friedman’s incredibly in-depth roundup of all things Anthropic. The wrangling over lawyers’ fees, she has said, should not delay the onset of payments to rights holders. The first of those payments, in instances where there is clarity over who the rights holders are, should start …
Scott and her family lived in various places in Canada and England. She and her younger sister spent much of their time with nannies and babysitters, since their parents were often traveling. As a girl, the author was known in her household for her “hysterical meltdowns,” generally stemming from an intense fear of being alone. …
Sociologist Luft provides a sober, well-documented portrayal of the Catholic Church’s ultimate failure to avoid mass executions of French Jews. Her history, beginning in 1933 and continuing through the closing months of the World War II, chronicles a number of personalities whose actions and inactions shaped the fate of France’s Jewish population. Luft is always …
Interior designer Lauren Simpson and architect Mike Miller have an unforgettable encounter over the holidays when a storm strands the traveling strangers at an airport hotel and they rescue a stray dog, but circumstances keep them from exchanging contact information. As their lives continue to intersect through an increasingly improbable series of near misses, both …
The big news of the week is Spotify’s announcement that it is opening up its AI narration tools for audiobooks to all indie authors in the US. Audiobook Creation Tools was the ElevenLabs collaboration with Spotify that had been in beta. It allows authors to turn their books into audiobooks within their Spotify for Authors …
The self-declared “worst” kid in his gifted circle of friends—the one with seemingly no talent for anything except getting into trouble—has spent his final year at Jerome Marco K-8 collecting disaster stories with his Team Bomb Shelter crew: martial arts cousin Adam, science whiz Rover, statistics prodigy Sean, wheelchair-using brainy beauty Helen, bighearted athlete Charlie, …