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 …
Jan Sorrensen is still scarred from his last encounter with a ghost, an experience that he turned into a bestselling novel, which gave him the funds to invest in a forthcoming tourist attraction: coal mine tours in small-town Dundee, Pennsylvania. The mine that’s set to reopen was the site of a fatal fire back in …
My ALLi author guest this episode is Diane Hatz. Diane spent years in the music industry, working at major and indie record companies, managing a band, and co-founding a fanzine on The Who that ended up in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Years later, she drew on those surreal experiences and turned them …
From a 12-neck guitar to a euphonium that pours beer, there is no limit to the musical instruments a human mind can dream up. In this encyclopedic collection, Loughridge and Patteson expand on their website of the same name to bring an illuminating historical survey of “fictophones.” The chapters are divided into loose taxonomies. “Historical …
As a child, Molly, her older sister, Eileen, and their parents emigrated from New Ross, Ireland, to a bucolic farm in Ohio. Molly’s family members are close friends with their neighbors, the MacLeiths, owners of a profitable sawmill. Once Molly turns 15, she’s courted by one of their sons, Andrew MacLeith. Although Molly is charmed …
On this episode of Self-Publishing with ALLi, Dan Holloway reports on a revealing piece by Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn, who explains why Kobo rejected 45 percent of self-published submissions in 2025 — most of them suspected AI-generated — and frames the decision as a “book community first” choice over a “readers first” approach. Dan …
Winston “Wince” Fisher Jr. is in a rut. After his daughter was born, Wince tried to leave his high-octane life of crime behind for a safe career in wealth management, but then his business partner forced him out, and he signed a two-year noncompete clause. Now, the former criminal and three-time divorcé has nothing to …
Tom Glass has a dream to reform the pharmaceutical industry by making prescription drugs affordable, especially for the impoverished workers in developing countries who manufacture them. Endeavoring to discover untapped medicinal resources in the Amazon jungle, Tom struggles to balance his grand ambitions with a severe alcohol addiction that’s devastated his family and relationships. After …
Following on from recent discussion in this column about what it costs libraries to buy the license for e-books, thanks to Jane Friedman for linking to this fascinating article which outlines exactly what libraries would like to see in this regard. What it attempts to describe is what librarians actually mean when they call for …
Mikaberidze, professor of history at Louisiana State University, writes that Spain claimed North America in the centuries after Columbus but gave it a low priority. In 1682, La Salle sailed from Canada down the Mississippi and claimed all of North America for France. France’s priorities, however, remained local, leaving its colonies under-resourced and politically marginalized. …
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 …