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5 Pre-Order Campaign Tips Authors Should Utilize

Posted on October 11, 2023 | by Ellen Zielinski Whitfield

Looking to create a successful pre-order campaign for your next book? The Books Forward team has you covered. Here are our tips for encouraging pre-orders: Update your sales pages on all platforms Ensure that your upcoming release (and any previous books!) have up-to-date, engaging copy on Amazon and all other sales channels. After all, if […]

Reunited + A NYT Bestseller: Books Forward October 2023 Newsletter

Posted on October 11, 2023 | by Jennifer Vance

Check out the latest newsletter featuring our award-winning authors and industry news. This issue features upcoming book releases, recent media coverage and much more! Read the October 2023 newsletter here!

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY: 3 Books that Validated My Queer Identity as a Late Bloomer, Chaotic Bisexual

Posted on October 10, 2023 | by Layne Mandros

I self-identify as a late bloomer because when I had the realization that I was not strictly into men that fact reared up and slapped me in the face like a tidal wave. There were flashes of my childhood that I was looking back on, cocked head, like “really Layne? You didn’t know that you […]

What a book foreword can serve to do in a novel

Posted on October 5, 2023 | by Marissa DeCuir

Writing the Prologue for Dancing Into the Light: an Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East By Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki A prologue can be several different things. It can hint at what is to come in the story, give background, or set a mood. More than anything, it should entice the reader to delve further into […]

Books Forward Authors in the Media: October 2023

Posted on October 5, 2023 | by Jennifer Vance

What can we say, Books Forward authors are always going, going, going! We’re excited to feature some of our authors and their recent media wins. Heather Dixon wrote a guest post for In Reference to Murder. BookLife called Kathryn K. Abdul-baki’s new book a “richly described memoir of a mid-century Arab-American childhood in the Middle […]

Marking World Mental Health Day with these books

Posted on October 5, 2023 | by Ellen Zielinski Whitfield

Mental health is a tough subject to address, and World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10 aims to raise awareness of these kinds of issues and mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The books below do a fantastic job discussing myriad themes with nuance and care. These books provide a nuanced perspective on mental […]

Renowned, nonconformist anthropologist pens poignant memoir

Posted on October 4, 2023 | by Marissa DeCuir

A remarkable account of public health advocacy in developing nations interwoven with vivid details of a rich, adventurous life WASHINGTON, DC – Medical anthropologist, former Harvard AIDS Prevention Project director, and former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS bares his personal and professional adventures as a rebel researcher and intrepid traveler in his […]

New York Times Modern Love contributor turns inward in bittersweet, empowering midlife coming-out memoir

Posted on October 4, 2023 | by Marissa DeCuir

Author Suzette Mullen reminds us: “It’s never too late for a new beginning.” LANCASTER, Pennsylvania – Inspired by a tiny love story she wrote for the New York Times’ popular Modern Love series, author and writing coach Suzette Mullen is releasing “The Only Way Through Is Out” (University of Wisconsin Press) on Feb. 13, 2024. […]

Spooky season approaches! Prepare with one of these atmospheric books

Posted on October 1, 2023 | by Marissa DeCuir

Guest post by Sydney from Bookpals (@bookpals) It. Is. Spooky. Season. Raise your hand if Halloween is your absolute favourite holiday of all time? Yes. Yes spooky babies, I see you and I am here for you. Why do we love Halloween? For me it’s a potent cocktail of pure nostalgia (grade school halloween parades […]

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