Although it’s “Day,” baby owl wants to “Play.” Mother owl tries to spoon-feed baby owl. “Ahh…” Such is the pattern set in this primer on early speech sounds, which devotes a two-page spread to each of the vowels; the hard vowel sound is exemplified on the left-hand page and the soft vowel sound on the …
June Nakashima, whose working-class Japanese American family lived in a section of Hilo known as Kimiville, lost her parents in the 1960 tsunami that devastated the region; when she was a teenager, she also experienced the trauma of being raped by a group of teenage boys. When June and her former classmate Max Nelson meet …
Young people are often the ones to embrace the impulse to speak truth to power, and sometimes they do so before they fully understand the consequences of their actions. This novel, set in California, presents a tale of misunderstanding alongside a story of fierce, self-righteous youth seeking justice. Soon after Hamilton High School student Redmond …
Faraday (a pseudonym) has traveled to over 150 countries throughout his career, and he’s collected a wide array of lovers in each one. In often explicit detail, he recounts his adventures with (to pick two examples) a self-confessed Romanian criminal and an international porn star from Azerbaijan in this work, describing how he’s navigated both …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway digs into Audible’s new Nielsen IQ study of 18,000 listeners, which finds audiobook fans buying the same books in multiple formats — and still seeking out human narrators. He also covers Smashwords adding pre-orders and pre-sales through Draft2Digital, and a Bookseller report on how …
AI is being used to cancel books and authors, turn readers against newsletters, and writers against each other. ALLi director Orna Ross discusses AI detection tools, due process, and why certifying writing as “human-made” matters far less than treating each… The post The detection wars: AI is publishing’s ‘wicked problem’ appeared first on The Self-Publishing …
Nine years before the bulk of the story takes place, New York University student Myra; her future husband, Alfred; and their friends witness the accidental death of Myra’s then-boyfriend Liam after he falls off a fire escape. In the present, Myra and Alfred have a stagnant marriage; things are especially uneasy of late due to …
Tail End Charlie is a 17-year-old Royal Air Force rear gunner from Yorkshire. In the Cotswolds, Marcus, who’s 15, works at Parnall’s, building machine gun turrets. Across the North Sea in Westphalia, Germany, 14-year-old Gisele has a father in the Luftwaffe and a disabled baby brother, who might be taken by the Nazis. Each young …
On this week’s Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway previews SelfPubCon 2026, running free over the weekend of October 17–18 with a Jane Friedman keynote, sessions on Kickstarter crowdfunding and local marketing, and an indie author lab for pass holders. He also opens the Written Word Media Indie Author Survey — whose past …
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Orna Ross and Joanna Penn discuss how book marketing is changing—and what still works. Drawing on their experiences updating their own marketing guides, they explore the growing role of AI, alternatives to social media, the renewed importance of print and in-person marketing, and why email lists …