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Electric Literature: 20 Small Press Books 2020

Help independent presses survive by catching up on the year’s best books.
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IndieBound.org: October 2020 Indie Next List

The October Indie Next List has some scrumptious reads including indie press greats such as White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad (Catapult Press) so be sure to find your next great read!
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Publishers Weekly: The Big Indie Books of Fall 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has in no way diminished the strength of the upcoming season’s books from small presses and university presses. PW’s reviews editors and bookseller recommendations have helped us cull a list of 20 not-to-be-missed indie releases that have either just been published or are due out before the holidays
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Bookriot: 10 Best New Indie Press Books to Read This Summer

Check out the list of some of the best summer indie press books, and find some great new reads and maybe a new favorite independent press!
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Kathe Koja’s Top 5 Halloween Book Recommendations

Kathe Koja, author of many novels including the classic award-winning, THE CIPHER, which is back in paperback this month after almost 30 years from Meerkat Press, shared with us her top five Halloween Book recommendations. Be sure to finish as there is an exciting giveaway at the end along with details on THE CIPHER reissue. […] More
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Five Ways to Create Memorable Characters by Ellen Birkett Morris

I wrote about the experiences of lots of different women in Lost Girls, but I had the same goal with each character, that she be unforgettable. Here are some of the things I did to make my characters stand out: The things she carries. Objects are a great way into character. When Teri, a waitress, […] More
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The Five Places that Created the Backdrop of Sybelia Drive

by Karin Cecile Davidson The five places that created the backdrop of Sybelia Drive: Anna Clara, the fictional small lake town in 1960s/70s central Florida, in which most of the story takes place. Quiet, mostly working class and military families, conservative with a good dousing of progressive attitudes, thanks to the liberal arts college at […] More
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Entropy: August and September 2020 Small Press Releases

Curated list of small press releases curated by Jacob Singer.
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Five Things I Learned About Submitting and Publishing Short Stories While Writing “A Place Remote”

by Gwen Goodkin Themed Issues/Contests are worth a try. My first published short story won the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. While this wasn’t a themed contest, the story I submitted, “A Boy with Sense,” was about a boy on a farm which aligned with Steinbeck’s writing. Another story in the collection, “Waiver,” won Black Fox […] More
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Seb Doubinsky’s The Invisible Playlist

Seb Doubinsky shared his playlist for his new book, The Invisible, which releases 8/11/20 (Meerkat Press). His publisher is also giving away a $50 giftcard so be sure to scroll down for all of the details. The Invisible is a masterfully written dystopian noir in Seb Doubinsky’s City-States Cycle books. It’s election time in New Babylon, […] More
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IndieBound.org: August 2020 Indie Next List

This month’s Indie Next List has some amazing indie press books, including Heiroglyphics by Jill McCorkle (Algonquin Books), The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder (Bloomsbury Publishing), The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler (Counterpoint Press), and Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework (Algonquin Books).
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IndieBound.org: July 2020 Indie Next List

This month’s Indie Next list included these indie press picks: Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (Europa Editions), Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Grove Press), and The Last Flight by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark).