THE SAPPHIRE HEART

In this first installment of The Erynvor Cycle, Elorah’s home of Eolemar is dying. She sees no way to save it—until she receives a dream vision from a Founding Dragon that names Elorah as “Erynvor,” the one true Uniter who will lead her people “from Destruction to Revival.” To do this, she must embark on …

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Selling Books Overseas from Your Author Website: Compliance Guidelines

At ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, we recommend that all authors seriously consider direct sales, author to reader, but the international market for digital and physical goods is complex. Selling books overseas from your author website is complex. To… The post Selling Books Overseas from Your Author Website: Compliance Guidelines appeared first on The …

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RED FLAGS AND BUTTERFLIES

Lexie, a gifted Canadian 10th grader, is caught in a whirlwind of competing demands: striving for a sports scholarship to prestigious Sunridge High’s Fine Arts and Music program, grieving a beloved mentor, juggling swim team obligations, and navigating her parents’ post-divorce tension. While her mother and friends are supportive, her father—who’s charming but controlling—undermines her …

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FATAL CASTLE

It’s 2023, and Ashley Bellamy is a history major at the University of California, Los Angeles, who’s staying with her father, Clive, in London, doing research for her thesis. Clive is the Chief Yeoman Warder (otherwise known as a Beefeater) at the Tower of London, who gives tours of the site in official dress and …

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LOVE WARS: CLASH OF THE PARENTS, A TRUE DIVORCE STORY

Told through the eyes of a sensitive child, Tower’s offbeat personal narrative immerses readers in the visceral confusion of a fractured family, rendered with vivid sensory details—the smell of apple juice and holding tight to a Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed animal. The child’s imagination serves as a coping mechanism, with recurring Star Wars and Hundred Acre Wood metaphors …

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IS THIS PRESENT FOR ME?

Scuttlebutt abounds as the mysterious box arrives at the local post office. One by one, anthropomorphized animal denizens curiously enter to see if they’re the recipient. Postal worker Fox replies to each with a poem stating that they are not the intended owner. The animals band together to follow the mail carrier to the home …

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Audio Interview: Production and Distribution Strategies of a Six-Figure Author, with Anna Featherstone and Fiona Tarr

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, Anna Featherstone speaks with indie author Fiona Tarr about the production and distribution strategies that helped her grow from her first fantasy novel in 2014 to becoming a six-figure mystery and crime writer today. Fiona explains how she keeps her production pipeline on track, why her long-term preorder …

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