All things indie books!
All things indie books!
These are books I return to again and again. It was in my MFA program at Chatham University where I fell in love with linked story collections. Some are linked by character, some by theme, but most often these books are linked by place. I love how the place becomes just as much of a […] More
The September indie next list has some amazing books, and we can’t wait to dive in…
By: Bradley Sides (author of Those Fantastic Lives) Shakespeare. Faulkner. Wilde. Dickens. These are names we mostly all know, and if I’m being honest, these are the names, as a high school English teacher, I sometimes get a little tired of hearing. These writers are certainly great, respected craftsman, but wouldn’t it be nice to […] More
by Lee Matthew Goldberg I may be biased because I’m a thriller writer, but no other books allow to escape as thoroughly if they’re done well. A thriller requires the right amount of tension and suspense, believability even if the plot veers into out-there territory, a good hook or a plot that we haven’t read […] More
We are pleased to welcome J. Ashley-Smith, author of the newly released Ariadne, I Love You. Be sure to check out his work and enter the $50 giftcard giveaway at the bottom of this article. I was in a very particular headspace when I wrote Ariadne, I Love You. Keen to explore a very particular […] More
Family secrets, popular culture, literary experimentation, and more to love in these new and forthcoming books.
I decided to write my second contemporary novel for adults This Much Huxley Knows with a seven-year-old narrator because I enjoyed developing the young character who goes missing in my debut novel The String Games. As a writer, entering the mind of a boy takes me so far away from my own experiences that I […] More
The texts in this list are curated through my personal interest and recommendations from publishing companies, authors, and publicists. …
We are excited to welcome J.S. Breukelaar, author of the recently released The Bridge (Meerkat Press). I was one of those who read nothing during the pandemic and was glued to cable instead, shamefully sucking at the teat of limited-series escapism while those around me wrote their quarantine masterpiece or became a Zelda Grandmaster or […] More
The texts in this list are curated through my personal interest and recommendations from publishing companies, authors, and publicists.
See the full list of books nominated for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Books are timeless. There’s no expiration date on literature. Here are a number of story collections – some released 6 months ago, others put out a number of years back – that remain as fresh and vibrant as the first time I read them. Funny, sad, brutal, tender – good stories encapsulate all of that. […] More
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