Publishers Weekly Runs a Monthly Spotlight on Indie Books, and Most Authors Don’t Know They Can Submit
Every month, Publishers Weekly runs a column called Indie Spotlight through its BookLife platform, a themed roundup of self-published titles with a short author statement for each one. July’s edition focuses on fiction, and it’s worth knowing about for two reasons: it’s a genuinely interesting window into what indie authors are actually writing about right…
What’s Getting Indie Bookseller Love This Month, and What It Tells Us About Comp Titles
Every month, the American Booksellers Association puts out its Indie Next List, hand-picked by actual booksellers at actual indie bookstores, alongside its Indies Introduce program spotlighting debut authors. Barnes & Noble Press runs its own “Most Anticipated Indie Releases” roundup for NOOK. Taken together, these lists are one of the better windows into what indie…
Kirkus Just Launched Its First-Ever Indie Awards, and the Finalists Are In
Kirkus Reviews has been a genuinely intimidating name in traditional publishing circles for nearly a century, so it’s worth pausing on this: they just launched their first-ever awards program dedicated entirely to independently published books, and the inaugural finalists were announced on July 7. Why this matters more than it might sound Kirkus has run…