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The Report Meet the Judges of the 2019 BookLife Prize in Fiction The semifinal round of the 2019 BookLife Prize Fiction Contest was judged by five accomplished authors. more » » CLMP, Submittable Ink Member Pricing Deal The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses and Submittable, the cloud-based submission management platform, have agreed on a unique pricing plan for the use of Submittable by CLMP members. more » » Book Deals: Week of December 9, 2019 For Park Row Books, Natalie Hallak preempted the debut novel by Sarah Penner for six figures. more » » We're Looking for the Next Great Work of Nonfiction! The grand prize winner of the BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest receives $5000 and an author profile in Publishers Weekly. Submit your book today! more » » Featured PW Reviews of BookLife Projects Hundred Percent Chance Robert K. Brown. Hundredpercentchance, $16.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-7934-3149-3 This intimate, passionate chronicle of recovery will appeal to those who’ve battled cancer. more » » The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB Tom Mooradian. CreateSpace, $19.95 trade paper (446p) ISBN 978-1-5426-1361-3 Mooradian’s memoir serves as a lucid firsthand account of life in the post-war U.S.S.R. more » » Featured BookLife Reviews The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World but Lost Her Way James Kurth. Washington Books, $15 (445p) ISBN 978-1-7331178-0-7 This deep dive into American imperial urges and their consequences will enlighten anyone interested in historical or present-day geopolitics. more » » Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness Keri Mangis, $18 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-73299-120-0 Readers who want their spiritual guidance personable but not edgy will find Mangis a gentle companion on their paths toward self-understanding. more » » BookLife Reviews are guaranteed, thorough, professional assessments plus marketing insights, written by Publishers Weekly reviewers and designed to help you reach the right readers. For more information click here The Best of BookLife Self-Publishing a Pop-Up Book The logistics of self-publishing a traditional book are daunting enough. But when your project is a pop-up book, things get even tougher, as one indie author discovered. more » » Wild Iris Publishing Flourishes in the Heartland After self-publishing his own picture book, David FitzSimmons resigned from his day job to make books full-time. more » » For more about these and other great jobs, visit the new PW JobZone, now with resume hosting and more! Account Specialist,Client Development - The NPD Group - new york, NY. EXECUTIVE EDITOR, S&S BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS - Simon & Schuster - New York, NY. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ALADDIN BOOKS - Simon & Schuster - New York, NY. Art Director, PRPG - ReaderLink Marketing Services - San Diego, CA. Senior Editor - McGraw-Hill - New York, NY. Indie News Roundup BookBaby: Creating a Low-Cost Book Trailer Advice for indie authors looking to create book trailers. more » » IndieReader: 'The Elf on the Shelf' by Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda B. Bell Tops IndieReader's Bestseller List A rundown of the self-published books hitting IndieReader's weekly bestseller list. more » » PW SELECT The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here. The Lovestruck Detective: A Big Muddy Mystery by M. C. Anderson Physician Career Choice and Satisfaction by Gerald Otis and Naomi Quenk Tell, or the Adventures in Themiddle by L.N. Mayer His Betrayals by Jerry Payne New Mountain, New River, New Home? by Margaret Eldridge Matchbox Dreams by Douglas Schwartz A Vintage Revenge by Lee Mossel Guys in Their 20s in the '60s by Dennis Rasmussen Valley of the Shadow: An Account of American POWs of the Japanese by Whitney Galbraith The Darkness at Dawn by Pamela Roberts Lee The Door to the Moon by Malisa Santigul Let's Fly by Greg Grant Click here to see all the recent titles enrolled in PW Select, or click here to sign up your book for the program.	Services Spotlight: Promotion & PR Promotion and PR: US Book Views If your business is promotion and PR—like the team at US Book Views—a free advertisement on BookLife's Services Directory is a great way to grow your business. And, if you're an indie author looking for help with promotion and PR, Services Directory is a place to connect with industry professionals. more »

The Report Friends Among the Stacks: An Indie Success Story The independent bookstore community embraces an author newly turned indie. more » » The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics Tough Poets, an Arlington, Mass.–based micropublisher, is crowdsourcing to reissue out of print classics. more » » Book Deals: Week of December 2, 2019 For six figures at auction, Sara Nelson at Harper bought North American rights to Lucy Adlington’s narrative history The Dressmakers of Auschwitz . more » » The BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest Is Accepting Submissions! Read the first of the BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest critics' reports, and submit your book today! more » » Featured PW Reviews of BookLife Projects Hazel and Holly Sara C. Snider. Double Beast, $7.99 e-book (452p) ISBN 978-91-87657-07-8 Moral ambiguity, humor, and heart combine in this fun, fulfilling romp. more » » Ivory Tower Grant Matthew Jenkins. Atmosphere, $20.99 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-64669-325-2 An intriguing, smoothly written first novel from scholar Jenkins. more » » Featured BookLife Reviews Of Epidemic Proportions, Expanded Edition Sylvia R. Karasu. Blurb, $156 (397p) ISBN 978-0-368-08948-0 In this expanded edition of her 2018 essay collection, Karasu, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, authoritatively examines the fraught topic of body weight. more » » West of Sin Wesley S. Lewis. Wesley S. Lewis, $15.99 paper (380p) ISBN 978-1-7340157-1-3 Lewis’s nonstop debut thriller careens from a dangerous sting against the Russian mob to a deadly battle aboard a skydiving plane as two unlikely heroes fall in love. more » » BookLife Reviews are guaranteed, thorough, professional assessments plus marketing insights, written by Publishers Weekly reviewers and designed to help you reach the right readers. For more information click here » The Best of BookLife The Indie Author Behind the Official 'Dracula' Prequel A self-published novel and a nomination for a Bram Stoker Award resulted in indie author J.D. Barker being tapped to write the official prequel to Dracula. more » » Why Bestselling Author Warren Ellis Chose to Self-Publish His New Book An author who has worked on X-Men, Iron Man, and James Bond franchises, self-publishes a collection of essays. more » » For more about these and other great jobs, visit the new PW JobZone, now with resume hosting and more! Journal Relations Manager - University of California Press - Oakland, CA. Contract Administrator - University of California Press - Oakland, CA. Editor, Economics & Technology Studies - University of California Press - Oakland, CA. Field Sales Representative - Macmillan Publishers - new york, NY. Senior Editor - McGraw-Hill - New York, NY. Indie News Roundup Self-Publishing Advisor: At the #NaNoWriMo Midway Point! A blogger checks in with NaNoWriMo writers. more » » IndieReader: 'Nantucket White Christmas' by Pamela M. Kelley Tops IndieReader's Bestseller List A rundown of the self-published books hitting IndieReader's weekly bestseller list. more » » PW SELECT The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here. Bedside Manner by Jay Glendell Cybersecurity Is Everybody's Business by Scott N. Schober Pursuing a Better Tomorrow by Blanca De La Rosa Kahana-The Untold Stories by Ann Kennedy Blue-Collar Beauty by Michelle Emmick Click here to see all the recent titles enrolled in PW Select, or click here to sign up your book for the program.	Services Spotlight: Social Media Social Media: BBL Publishing If your business is social media—like the team at BBL Publishing—a free advertisement on BookLife's Services Directory is a great way to grow your business. And, if you're an indie author looking for help with social media, Services Directory is a place to connect with industry professionals. more »

The Report Meet the 2019 BookLife Prize Finalists in Fiction BookLife chats with the five finalists for the BookLife Prize Fiction Contest. more » » Egypt’s Bookish Revolution Publishers Weekly explores the broadening literary and publishing landscape of Egypt. more » » Book Deals: Week of November 25, 2019 Franchise bestseller Christopher Paolini (the Inheritance Cycle series) sold a new novel to Tor in a seven-figure deal. more » » The BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest Is Accepting Submissions! Read the first of the BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest critics' reports, and submit your book today! more » » Featured PW Reviews of BookLife Projects Foundations in Spiritual Direction: Sharing the Sacred Across Traditions Beverly Lanzetta. Blue Sapphire, $39.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-7323438-1-8 Readers wanting to think broadly about mysticism will enjoy this eclectic mix of history and practices. more » » Yukon Revenge Ken Baird. Ken Baird, $18.95 trade paper (606p) ISBN 978-0-9973175-2-7 Baird populates this complex, taut suspense novel with believable characters. more » » Featured BookLife Reviews King of the Blind Caiseal Mór. Matrayah Media, $2.99 e-book (516p) ASIN B07HMJYDY3 This uproarious interweaving of Harper Turlough O’Carolan’s life and compositions with late-18th-century plotting and shenanigans will delight anyone interested in Irish history, music, and lore. more » » Driven by Conscience Rachel Goss. Tarkus Imaging, $14.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-0-578-47284-3 Readers looking for an uplifting story of kindness and valor amid WWII’s dangers will enjoy Goss’s tale of a conscripted German physicist who devotes himself to the Allied cause. more » » BookLife Reviews are guaranteed, thorough, professional assessments plus marketing insights, written by Publishers Weekly reviewers and designed to help you reach the right readers. For more information click here » The Best of BookLife Revisiting the Rise of Indie Crime Novels Crime novelists are trading traditional publishing deals for indie freedom. more » » How One Bestselling Indie Author Became a Book Box Entrepreneur After hitting bestseller lists and landing a traditional book deal, indie author Colleen Hoover turned her attention to creating a book subscription service called Bookworm Box. more » » For more about these and other great jobs, visit the new PW JobZone, now with resume hosting and more! Assistant Marketing Manager, Children's Books & Trade - American Psychological Association - Washington, DC. Marketing Coordinator - Ingram Content Group - Minneapolis, MN. Publicist/Senior Publicist - Bloomsbury Publishing Inc - New York, NY. Marketing Manager - Tor Books - New York, . Senior Editor - McGraw-Hill - New York, NY. Indie News Roundup The Millions: The Less-Traveled Road to Getting a Book Published There's more than one way to get your book published. more » » IndieReader: 'The Elf on the Shelf' by Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda B. Bell Tops IndieReader's Bestseller List A rundown of the self-published books hitting IndieReader's weekly bestseller list. more » » PW SELECT The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here. Every Drop of Water and Every Grain of Salt on the Way to Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia Bern, Baby, Bern!: Why Bernie Sanders' Policies Would Incinerate the U.S. Economy by J. Kyle deVries Payback: Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge by Steve Bassett Freefall: The Amalie Noether Chronicles by Jana Williams Narican: The Cloaked Deception by Douglas Robbins Under My Bubbe's Wings by Iser Flaum Beyond the Silence: The Renegade by Dave Crawford Good Evil by David Crawford The Ghosts of Notchey Creek by Liz S. Andrews Possessed (Pagan Light Book 1) by JoAnne Keltner One of Seventeen by Catherine Nagle Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life by Fred Emil Katz The Last Merry Go Round by C.L. Charlesworth Pursuing a Better Tomorrow by Blanca De La Rosa En busca de un mañana mejor: De Nocedo Del Valle a Estados Unidos by Blanca De La Rosa Lighten Your Day: Fast, Easy and Effective Stress Relief for When Sh*t Happens by Pete Alexander Requiem for the Dead by Victor M. Alvarez Bedside Manner by Jay Glendell Cybersecurity Is Everybody's Business by Scott N. Schober Click here to see all the recent titles enrolled in PW Select, or click here to sign up your book for the program.	Services Spotlight: Web Design Web Design: Elegant Book Design If your business is web design—like the team at Elegant Book Design—a free advertisement on BookLife's Services Directory is a great way to grow your business. And, if you're an indie author looking for help with web design, Services Directory is a place to connect with industry professionals. more »

The Report Big Black Chapters: Navigating Diversity Within the Indie Writing Community Two authors have created a unique writing space for African-American #OwnVoices storytellers. more » » Documentary Celebrating Picture Books Turns to Kickstarter Director and producer Joanna Rudnick believes so strongly in the power of picture books that she is producing a feature-length documentary about them. more » » Book Deals: Week of November 18, 2019 In a world English rights agreement, restaurateur David Chang sold his memoir, in a two-book deal, to Clarkson Potter. more » » The BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest Is Accepting Submissions! Read the first of the BookLife Prize Nonfiction critics' reports, and submit your book today! more » » Featured PW Reviews of BookLife Projects Otherwise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation Chris Paige. OtherWise Engaged, $9.99 ebook (216p) ISBN 978-1-951124-00-7 This is a treasure chest of resources for those interested in ways transgender individuals can live faithful to God and to one’s self. more » » Smoke and Dagger: A Spectra Files Prequel Douglas Wynne. Prometheus, $11.99 trade paper (170p) ISBN 978-1-07-726683-4 The standalone prequel to Wynne’s Lovecraftian Spectra Files trilogy is a tale of hair-raising, supernaturally tinged suspense. more » » Featured BookLife Reviews This Will Never Stop Joan Spilman. Joan Spilman, $8 ebook (266p) ISBN 978-1-7960-5133-9 Spilman’s multigenerational tale of four women in a rural West Virginia family is rich with secrets and sorrows. more » » Things They Buried Amanda K. King & Michael R. Swanson. Ismae Books, $4.99 (506p) ISBN 978-1-73357-831-8 King and Swanson pack their absorbing debut horror fantasy with brisk action, acute tension, and detailed worldbuilding in a land full of various humanoids. more » » BookLife Reviews are guaranteed, thorough, professional assessments plus marketing insights, written by Publishers Weekly reviewers and designed to help you reach the right readers. For more information click here » The Best of BookLife Writing Tips from Barbara Kingsolver Author Barbara Kingsolver offers advice on how to write a book. more » » Indie Author Finds Success Hitting the Festival Circuit An aggressive marketing campaign that focuses on festivals, including many gatherings with little or no direct connection to books, has paid off for indie author Raymond Depew. more » » For more about these and other great jobs, visit the new PW JobZone, now with resume hosting and more! Acquisitions Editor (Adult) - Sourcebooks - New York, NY. Publicist - The New York Public Library - New York, NY. Metadata Specialist - Chronicle Books LLC - San Francisco, . Senior Director of Video - HarperCollins - New York, NY. Sales Representative - Ingram Content Group - new york, NY. Indie News Roundup Glamour: Margaret Atwood Self-Published Her First Book Margaret Atwood reveals that she once self-published a book of poetry. more » » IndieReader: 'Tacker' by Sawyer Bennett Tops IndieReader's Bestseller List A rundown of the self-published books hitting IndieReader's weekly bestseller list. more » » PW SELECT The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here. Man Shark by Gerald R. Knight How He Robbed Me of My Three Baby Daughters by Maggie Colombe Why Is This Happening to Me?: A Guide for Learning Emotional Intelligence by Kathleen Kelly Kuskovo: A Spy Novel by Rick Marshall What About Barnum? Binary Bounty Book 1 by Joss Landry Taboo Tech by Joy Smith Where's ... Eli? by Alex S. Avitabile Living the Dream?: The Problem with Escapist, Exhibitionist, Empire-Building Christianity by Tristan Sherwin Breaking Ava Lake by K. P. Ambroziak Mr. Moonbeam and the Halloween Crystal by Ryan Cowan Magdalena's Shadow by E.E. Orme Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story by E.A. Luetkemeyer Every Drop of Water and Every Grain of Salt on the Way to Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia Bern, Baby, Bern!: Why Bernie Sanders' Policies Would Incinerate the U.S. Economy by J. Kyle deVries Click here to see all the recent titles enrolled in PW Select, or click here to sign up your book for the program.	Services Spotlight: Distribution Distribution: Gatekeeper Press If your business is distribution—like the team at Gatekeeper Press—a free advertisement on BookLife's Services Directory is a great way to grow your business. And, if you're an indie author looking for help with distribution, Services Directory is a place to connect with industry professionals. more »