Pride is traditionally marked each June to honor the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. We asked 20 LGBTQ+ bookstagrammers to recommend a book that holds meaning for them. Many of them are also involved in #BookstaPride, a project donating funds to Lambda Literary and the LGBTQ Freedom Fund. And we also included 10 queer reads that […]
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Amplify Your Book: The Value of Radio for Authors
As an author, your first radio interview can feel daunting, exciting — maybe even frustrating if you worry the whole thing will be in vain. Radio’s dead, right? Or at least dying? Will it really help to promote my book? Like all media that isn’t deemed “social,” radio has been given a bad rap in […]
15 bookstagrammers to follow for Mental Health Awareness Month (with book recommendations)
May marks Mental Health Awareness Month. My dad is a psychiatrist, so I grew up in a household where talking about mental health was normalized and even encouraged (thankfully). And yet when I struggled with anxiety and depression later in my 20s, I still had trouble confronting what was going on. For me, reading books […]
10 bookstagrammers to follow for Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month (with book recommendations)
We’ve gathered some of our favorite bookstagrammers and books for API Heritage Month to diversify your feed and your TBR in May and beyond! May is Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and we asked some of our favorite bloggers and bookstagrammers to share their recommendations to diversify your reading this month and beyond! […]
New to digital and audiobook downloads? Here’s what you need to know.
You’re homebound due to COVID-19, your local library and bookstore are closed, and you’ve just finished the last book on your shelf. What’s a reader to do? With popular online retailers like Amazon suspending nonessential shipments such as physical book deliveries (although we would argue that good literature is essential in times of stress or […]
The library is your friend, even if you can’t get to it
So you’re stuck at home, either because you aren’t feeling well or because you’re doing social distancing until the coronavirus hopefully goes away for good. For me, the library is my safe space – I go there when I’m stressed out or just need to escape. And it can still be that for you, even […]
JKS Communications celebrates 20 years with launch of Books Forward publicity and Books Fluent publishing
Veteran book publicity firm JKS Communications has been moving books forward for 20 years, and the company is proud to celebrate this anniversary with the launch of two new companies under its brand. Books Forward will continue the signature creative, customized book marketing and author publicity campaigns, and a new indie publishing division, Books Fluent, […]
The Importance of having a personal and an author Facebook
You’ve finished your book, it’s off to the printers and you’re ready to start telling the world about it. What’s the first thing you do? Tell everyone you know! And what better place to do so than on social media. Social media has made large audiences accessible to everyone with access to a computer or […]
Tragic Heroes: Two Persecuted WWII Female Resistance Operatives Who Greatly Aided the Allied War Effort
By Samuel Marquis In Spies of the Midnight Sun: A True Story of WWII Heroes, Book 3 of his WWII Series, historical fiction author Samuel Marquis recounts the courage and tenacity of female Norwegian Resistance operatives Dagmar Lahlum and Annemarie Breien in their efforts to defeat the Nazis, as well as the tragedy of their […]
Happy Father’s Day!
Marissa DeCuir, President Marissa and her Dad My dad started a local newspaper when he was in college. So growing up in a newsroom, and eventually going into journalism myself, I’ve always had a love of stories – finding, hearing and sharing them. Transitioning into book publicity was easy because what I loved most about […]
