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Avoiding Platform Theft
How Amazon Advertising is harming indie authors.
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New Titles from Self-Publishers: November 2019
Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 87 self-published titles below.
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Friends Among the Stacks: An Indie Success Story
The independent bookstore community embraces an author newly turned indie.
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Ask the Editor: How to Write a Book Proposal
A veteran editor answers your writing questions.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers September 2019
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BookLife Prize Names Five Fiction Finalists
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New Titles from Self-Publishers: October 2019
Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at these 72 self-published titles.
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Ask the Editor: When to Stop Revising
A veteran editor answers your writing questions.
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First Lines: October 2019
Some of our best opening lines from titles by BookLife authors.
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Indie Scouting Report: October 2019
In this month’s roundup of the best-reviewed BookLife titles, we highlight a military romance, an inventive guide to building interpersonal connections, a novel based on a little-known historical figure, and others.
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Big Black Chapters: Navigating Diversity Within the Indie Writing Community
Two authors build a unique writing space for African American #OwnVoices storytellers.
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Book Cover Redesign: ‘Nourish: Ayurveda-Inspired 21-Day Detox’
This month, Michelle Argyle at Melissa Williams Design reimagines the cover of 'Nourish: Ayurveda-Inspired 21-Day Detox' by Stephanie Hrehirchuk.
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Stepping Out of the Box: An Indie Success Story
An established YA author experiments with indie publishing.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers: August 2019
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New Titles from Self-Publishers: September 2019
Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at these 97 self-published titles.
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Ask the Editor: Writing Believable Dialogue
A veteran editor answers your writing questions.
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First Lines: September 2019
This month, we’ve got sex-crazed plants, island secrets, and fairy tales. To submit a first line, email booklifeeditor@booklife.com.



