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For the Love of Books
Gift Ideas for Writers
by, Audrey Arnold
December 7, 2021

Struggling with what to get for the writer in your life this holiday season? Here are some creative gift ideas to help inspire, motivate, and comfort. And remember to shop early this year to get ahead of the expected holiday shipping delays! Notebooks and journals This may seem like a given, but trust me: writers really do love getting notebooks. And no, there’s no such… [Read More]

Filed Under: Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, Bookshop, Bookshop.org, Etsy, holidays, MasterClass, On Writing, Out of Print, Scribbler, Stephen King, Steven James, Troubleshooting Your Novel
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Booky Call – Book Matchmaking for the Modern World
by, Audrey Arnold
November 16, 2021

According to a recent survey, 62% of women would rather spend Friday night reading a good book than out on a date, and the similarities between how people talk about both reading and dating is fascinating. Given these similarities, and with the success of popular dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, Match, Grindr, and eHarmony, Brant Menswar and Jim Knight, the founders of digital book marketing… [Read More]

Filed Under: book app, book discovery, book recommendation, Bookshop, Bookshop.org, BookstarPR, Booky Call, Brant Menswar, Bumble, dating app, eHarmony, Grindr, Jim Knight, Tinder
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Graphic Memoir—Powerful Stories through Illustration
by, Audrey Arnold
October 6, 2021

With a beautiful blend of art and prose, graphic novels are one of the most accessible mediums out there. Even if you’re not a huge reader, a graphic novel is easy to pick up and digest. More than just superhero comics and manga, graphic novels contain stories from many different genres—mystery/thriller, romance, sci-fi/fantasy, and so much more. While comics and graphic novels are certainly not… [Read More]

Filed Under: Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman, Fun Home, Game of Thrones, George Takei, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Guts, Hey Kiddo, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Kindred, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Octavia Butler, Omar Mohamed, Persepolis, Raina Telgemeier, Sisters, Smile, The Best We Could Do, They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui, Victoria Jamieson, When Stars are Scattered
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UntitledTown Returns for One-Day Event
by, Audrey Arnold
August 10, 2021

After an absence that followed the cancelation of their 2020 festival due to the pandemic, UntitledTown has partnered with the Friends of the Brown County Library and Lion’s Mouth Bookstore and is making a comeback with a one-day event of readings from your favorite Wisconsin and Midwestern authors. UntitledTown: the Comeback Event will take place on Saturday, August 21 from 10am to 4pm at the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amanda Skenandore, Andrew Graff, Brown County Library, Friends of Brown County Library, Green Bay, Lion's Mouth Bookstore, Miranda and Baptiste Paul, Nickolas Butler, Pao Lor, Rebecca Makkai, UntitledTown, UntitledTown Book and Author Festival
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Bridgerton and the Romance Boom
by, Samantha Kolb
July 6, 2021
Julia Quinn The Duke and I

Though going to a brick-and-mortar bookstore has been something many of us missed dearly this past year, slowly they are reopening in most parts of the country. While it may be safe to head inside your local indie bookstore, heading to the romance section feels like an activity that needs to be done in a baseball hat, sunglasses, and perhaps a fake mustache. I won’t… [Read More]

Filed Under: Bridgerton, historical romance, Julia Quinn, The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me
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Emerging Genre
by, Jill Swenson
June 8, 2021

There’s a new kind of first-person narrative nonfiction book growing in popularity, and it is moving away from traditional commercial memoir as “misery lit” following a single template of story structure, the hero’s journey. We’re into the twenty-twenties now, and I see a pattern emerging among these new kinds of nonfiction books: a distinctive narrator’s voice, expository information about a subject matter separate from the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book of Eels, Eva Holland, Horse Crazy, Kate Lebo, Lilly Dancyger, Lulu Miller, Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction, Negative Space, Nerve, Patrik Svensson, Sarah Maslin Nir, The Book of Difficult Fruit, Why Fish Don't Exist
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Trustworthy Giveaway
by, Jill Swenson
May 4, 2021

You can enter to win a free copy of Margot Bloomstein’s new book, Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap, by leaving a comment on this blog post. Tell us what brand you trust and why. You’ll then be entered into a random drawing to be held on Saturday, May 8, 2021. One lucky winner will be sent a free… [Read More]

Filed Under: accountability, Authenticity, Book Giveaway, Empathy, Margot Bloomstein, Transparency, Trustworthy, voice, volume, vulnerability
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The Soul’s Twins: A Book Giveaway
by, Jill Swenson
February 9, 2021

Valentine’s Day is coming up and we’re giving away one free copy of The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes to one lucky reader. Author of Healing the Sacred Divide, Dream Theatres of the Soul and The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth, Jean Benedict Raffa offers a self-guided journey to spiritual maturity in her latest book, The Soul’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: archetypes, Jean Raffa, Jungian psychology, Red Feather MBS, Schiffer Books, The Soul's Twins
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20 Ways to Help Authors in 2021
by, Jill Swenson
January 12, 2021

Pre-order. You might be surprised to learn that pre-ordering a book is critical to the launch of a book. Publishers may make decisions about how much marketing support to provide a new release based on the volume of pre-orders. Some even determine the size of a first print run using those numbers. If a book has strong pre-order sales, reviewers are more likely to review it,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amazon, GoodReads, independent bookstore, Little Free Libraries, shop local, Social Media, Support Authors, support indie
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Webtoon – Innovation in the World of Comics
by, Audrey Arnold
March 24, 2020

You may think of comics as panels in a newspaper or as physical serialized issues featuring superheroes, but today, a new trend has taken hold in the form of Webtoons. While the concept of online comics is not a new thing, one comic app in particular is transforming the way readers consume this content. Launched in South Korea in 2004, LINE Webtoon features full-color comics… [Read More]

Filed Under: Comic Creator, Free Comics, LINE Webtoon, Online Comics, Web Comics, Webtoon, What is Webtoon
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