Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (New York: W. W. Norton, February 12, 2019). 256 pp, $25.95, hardcover ISBN 9780393651645. “Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” “Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see…
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AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2019). 256 pp, $15.00; paperback ISBN 9781623719685. Aya Dane is an elegant exploration of invisible cultural memories, creatively rendered on a canvas of migration. Here in her…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor ACTS OF ALLEGIANCE: A NOVEL by Peter Cunningham (New York: Arcade Publishing, September 11, 2018). First North American Edition; 296 pp, $22.99; hardback ISBN 97816287295535; also available as e-book. UK edition: Dingwall, Ross-shire: Sandstone Press, 2017; paperback. “’All men are loyal, but…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A GIFT FROM ABUELA by Cecilia Ruiz (Candlewick Press, August 7, 2018). 38 pp, hardback $15.99. “Sweet are the uses of adversity….” —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene I) Indie publishers bring all types of books to life. Some…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor MEM: A NOVEL by Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed Press, May 22, 2018). 192 pp, hardcover, $25.00. Also available as e-book and audiobook. “Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.” Christina Rossetti “Remember”…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells (Counterpoint Press, 2018). 224pp, hardcover, $26.00. li · brar · y “What the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now.” —Neil Gaiman, 2013 Lecture for The…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press, 2018). 320pp, paper, $16.00. “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society…
The Hybrid Author
By Bokerah I recently attended an online workshop by Jeff Goins. He offered two free workshops related to Art of Work. One was a general workshop, the other – the one I attended – was for want-to-be-so-bad-it-hurts writers. During the session, he received lots of great questions. Many of them were related to the query “Which path is…
Why I'll Likely Self-Publish My Novel
I’ve been struggling to find a literary agent for one of my two fiction novels for more than a year now. I’ve pitched the story at conferences and via email, and received a steady trickle of rejections. Mostly formulaic responses, some nicer than others, one or two with encouraging words, but all the same rejection…