November 2020
Top Ten Reasons to Enter the IPPY Awards
World Reading Habits in 2020: An Infographic
Indie Groundbreaking Publisher: Sounds True
Indie Groundbreaking Book: Where Did Poetry Come From
IIndie Groundbreaking Bookseller: The Raven
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Top Ten Reasons to Enter the IPPY Awards
"Every year we have lots of surprises: first-time authors, one-book publishers, and all manner of eclectic and unique award-winners."
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Cats and Books
"It’s October, which means witches and their accompanying spooky cats are out and about."
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Sounds True
Tami Simon and Sounds True had evolved from toting a clunky tape recorder, had seen both the tape cassette and CD become obsolete, and now had come "back to the future" of spoken word around a campfire.
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Writing in the Time of Coronavirus: 10 Tips
"COVID-19 has upended our lives in so many ways, often stifling the spark of creativity we work so hard to hold onto. Between work and virtual school and watching the news and trying to maintain some sort of balance…who has time for writing?"
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The ABCs of Book Marketing
"We've learned a lot about what makes books successful over the years -- and one big take-away is that writing and publishing a book is the easy part -- promoting it and selling it is where the real work begins!"
Where Did Poetry Come From
"This is a very special kind of memoir, one that truly engages the reader, letting you in on secrets and soulful information."
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World Reading Habits in 2020
"35% of people said they read more books this year because of the pandemic and 14% of people said they read significantly more."
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The Raven Book Storeby Jim Barnes / December 2019 "For our part, we try to level things by being really good at what we do, and really loud. So we use our platform to try to teach people what's at stake as Amazon increases its influence and market share." |
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From the Tech Deskby Craig Manning / April 2020 "Libraries, those bastions of free books and knowledge, were always an equalizer in times like these: a mechanism that would allow anyone to access a massive array of books, even if they couldn’t afford to pay for them." |
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Sisters in Crime Announces the Winner of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award
"My daughters have been with me through the hardest times of my life. And I wanted to show them that their overly protective, annoying mom has dreams from her childhood coming true, even today." |
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Cats and Booksby Jillian Manning / October 2020 Famous Felines in Literature |
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Writing in the Time of Coronavirus: 10 Tipsby Jillian Manning / September 2020 |
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The ABCs of Book Marketingby Jim Barnes / September 2020 25 Great Tips (and One Stupid One) |
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World Reading Habits in 2020by Isabel Cabrera How the coronavirus has changed our reading habits |
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Top Ten Reasons to Enter the IPPY AwardsYou can't win if you don't send it in... |