For Readers
Last year’s judges of the Not the Booker Prize have selected the final contender for the 2018 award. Three Dreams in the Key of G by Marc Nash joins the five other books on the shortlist. Those five were narrowed down from 140 nominees through...
Musician Jeff Tweedy will release a memoir in a few months, according to the Los Angeles Times. The paper reports that Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc. is scheduled for publication on Nov...
Emily Temple was not thrilled to hear that a beloved novel was being made into a movie. Many of you readers can probably empathize, whether you assume Hollywood will just screw it all up or whether you think the book’s style just won’t wo...
David Joy is once again writing about the rural South, but this time, it’s fictional. Last year, he published a celebrated essay called “Digging in the Trash,” about the caricaturization of poor southerners. Now, his new novel...
For Authors
You’ve invented characters, helped them conquer (some of) the obstacles you threw at them, developed their entire world ... and now you have to sum up those thousands of words in a pithy and attention-grabbing title. No pressure, right? Betty K...
Recently we featured two guest columns from sensitivity reader (and author) Patrice Williams Marks: one explaining the service and another describing how to become one. Now we’re sharing a piece from an author who has made great use of them. Ja...
Children’s author Karen Inglis has been self-publishing her books for several years now, and by now, she knows what works. She explains to Joanna Penn how to overcome the higher printing costs and additional marketing challenges in this particu...
Author Ellen L. Buikema discovered recently that Amazon is rolling out the option to add videos to a book’s page. She wrote a tutorial post for the feature on Indies Unlimited (for those who, like her, don’t have the best r...
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