Cover Crush: Portals to New WorldsOur latest Cover Crush issue explores how indie authors use book cover art to provide first impressions of their story. more
Romance Bookstores Are Surging Across the CountryA host of booksellers in small towns and rural areas are opening romance-focused stores that double as community spaces. PW takes a look at the exciting trend. more
- Call for Submissions: Indie Spotlight: Our August Indie Spotlight will feature sci-fi and fantasy. To submit your book, email booklife@booklife.com with the subject line: "Indie Spotlight: Sci-fi and Fantasy." Include your book name, author name, and a personal statement (written in first-person).
- Free BookLife Editorial Features for Indie Authors: Standing out isn’t easy for self-published authors. BookLife’s editorial features provide visibility and credibility—at no cost. Check out the opportunities!
- Write for BookLife!: We're currently looking for pitches from the BookLife community concerning craft, self-publishing, marketing, and other editorial topics. With the subject line "BookLife Pitch," please write to booklife@booklife.com with your article idea and a brief bio.
- 'The Solicitor' by Shauna Ritz: A charged story of deception, connection, and survival in Los Angeles at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, Ritz’s ambitious debut finds Marcello Luna—a “larger than life” concert pianist, Fulbright Scholar, and speaker of eight languages—moving from Montevideo to Los Angeles with his “waif” of a wife, Beatriz, in 1977.
- 'Nightlight' by Claire Millikin: “I want to begin again but I’m made of the South,” declares Georgia-born art history professor Millikin in this gorgeous, heartsick poetry collection, her eleventh, following Magiciada and others.
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The following are this week's books from PW Select, Publishers Weekly's marketing program for indie authors. To sign up your book for PW Select, click here.
 The Life of Sluggo by B. C. Waldroop |
 The Two Oceans by Martin Tiongson |
 Ogallala by Eric Eichhorn |
 Dance of the Owl Woman: Patya's Journey by K.M. Huber |
 What Big Lies You Have: An Addictive Suspenseful Thriller about Love & Loss with a Shocking Twist by A.G. Mock |
 Waterspout by Troy Ford |
 Strong With Me: Strength Training For Growing Bodies: A Complete Children's Wellness Series, Book 3 by Dulsey Stewart, Mindful Miss D |
 I Saw You by CherAnn Wright |
 Too Jagged to Hold by Kristen Hornung |
 Avis Afterward by Julie Cline |
Click here to see all the recent titles enrolled in PW Select, or click here to sign up your book for the program.
