There are so many great duos: Sonny and Cher. Peanut butter and jelly. Calvin and Hobbes. An author and their publicist. If you’ve hired a publicist to help market your book, you’ve already taken the first step in building a truly dynamic partnership. And with any partnership, it’s important that both sides are working together […]
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Reading Recommendations for Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is the annual celebration of the freedom to read, and is typically celebrated during the final week of September. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, […]
An interview with Elizabeth Decker of Caprichos Bookshop
What’s your favorite area of your bookstore? The post office because it means I’m shipping more books! What’s the coolest book cover that you like to have facing out on the shelves? One book cover that always gets a lot of attention is Lost Words. It’s also a giant book and partnered with Lost Spells […]
An interview with Emily Giglierano of Astoria Bookshop
What is your favorite area of your bookstore? Our under-visited kids’ nonfiction section. It’s not ideally situated, tucked away near the office and the back door storage area, but the books are my favorites: these are the really cool picture-book biographies, the oversized atlases of wild animals and places all over the world, almanacs and […]
“Addictive” WWII series continues with detective investigating art heist and multiple London murders
‘This is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I’ve read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots and deep characterisation, and, above all, are written so well I shall have to read them all.‘ –THE LONDON TIMES LONDON, England – In “Dead in the Water” […]
Books Forward September 2022 Newsletter
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 September 2022 newsletter here!
Books and bloggers to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month
Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 is Latinx Heritage Month and to celebrate we wanted to spotlight some Latinx book influencers who you should 100% be following! Keep reading to learn a little bit about each influencer and a book by a Latinx author that they would recommend! Alicia | Blog: akernelofnonsense.wordpress.com, Instagram: @akernelofnonsense My name […]
Books Forward BFFs September 2022 Newsletter
Check out the latest newsletter for our Books Forward Friends. This issue features highlights of our BFFs, fun titles available for review, and special opportunities for our friends. Download the September 2022 newsletter here!
Three women face life-altering events in haunting debut
Eerie stories perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami and Kate Atkinson BATH, Ohio – Step into the shocking, strange, and unforgettable stories of three women entering adulthood through a series of grim events in this genre-bending debut by M. Laszlo. Using his own personal journals, M. Laszlo creates an illusion of happiness struck down by […]
An interview with Ericka Arcadia of Hudubam Booktraders
What’s your favorite area of your bookstore? I’ve always loved our sci-fi/fantasy area the best because those were the books I carried around when I first started feeling like a reader. I was never the kid who read enough to get a personal pizza for it, and I never had money for book fairs. It […]