As the third entry in the Elemental Witch League trilogy, The Fog raises the stakes to biblical proportions, opening with Satan and the Nephilim unleashing a supernatural “end-of-days” weapon meant to drown the world in terror and death. From there, the novel widens fast—into a globe-spanning, good-versus-evil conflict where a young “Fundamental Witch,” Susan, and her …
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 …
The Jesus Trail: Following in the Footsteps of Christ by Pierce Kelley is a deeply moving and contemplative novel that follows sixteen-year-old Mekhaeil Zacharias, a Coptic Christian, as he undertakes a pilgrimage from Nazareth through the Galilee to Jerusalem. Still reeling from the horrific murder of his two older brothers and nineteen other Coptic Christians …
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 …
Seventeen-year-old Aria Lendell has always been a hopeless romantic and inveterate daydreamer. But ever since something terrible happened to her identical twin, Cady, her imagination has lost its spark. Aria suddenly starts having lucid dreams at midnight; the fantastical settings offer a reprieve from reality. She shares the dreamworld with Strat Madigan, who attends St. …
Clara Cowan and Seb Bonami meet in London when they’re both at the beginning of their adult lives. Clara dreams of being a director and is already hard at work making films with her obnoxious actor boyfriend. Seb has tried music, modeling, and acting, but none of them feel like a calling to him. It …
It’s the Sunday before Tess Lowell’s second wedding, but the painstaking planning for her union to practically perfect state Senate hopeful Warren Ashley didn’t prepare her for the drama that’s about to unfold over a week at her family’s Cape Cod estate. Because unbeknownst to Tess, her troublemaking brother, Sebastian, invited her ex-husband, Peter Hyun, …