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I don't push people to buy chapbooks I write. I want to give them as gifts. I plan to print out 100 copies. That's it. Becoming: Then it Hit Me (MMXX) is out today in both paperback and ebook. ebook ASIN: B086J8QK18 paperback ISBN: 979-8619923025 There are short stories (hybrid memoir), and lots about my life today... ABOUT The Book Trace L Hentz’s BECOMING: Then it Hit Me MMXX is a fierce uplifting hybrid memoir that is wholly unique to the award winning Native journalist’s lived experiences as a curious but traumatized child/adoptee, as a young actor and rock musician traveling the states, as a wife and grandmother, and as a working writer-publisher-blogger. Weaving together true stories and conversations, Hentz addresses themes of opening her adoption, identity, family reunions, transformation, spirituality, a sense of home, and claiming an identity in her two worlds. Becoming is about becoming the change… Writing about how she got the name Lethal Jour...

Do you need free audible reads? READ THIS Hyperallergic's film reviews will be listed on Rotten Tomatoes !  Yesterday, we also published a  report on why many independent publishers are giving up Amazon  to use Bookshop, a new service that shares 75% of book sales with publishers (far more than Amazon). We also announced this week that  Hyperallergic will now use Bookshop links  whenever possible going forward. Consequently, we’re happy to share that we will now be working with Bookshop to support our colleagues at small presses, wherever possible. This decision comes in response to an initiative led by Ugly Duckling Presse, a nonprofit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, and artist books based in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Together with a group of over 30 small presses, they recently issued a collective call for independent media outlets and book reviewers to  “rethink [their] links” and help mitigate the damaging e...

Despite their popularity, it's still impossible to find paperback versions of many new books when they debut. It's a common practice among publishers to release new titles as hardcovers and publish the paperback edition about a year after the initial print run. People who do their reading at the beach or on the subway may not be happy about it, but the financial benefits of this model mean it likely isn't going away any time soon. "While a hardcover book is more expensive to print than a paperback, the publisher does traditionally make more money on that edition, allowing them to earn back the author's advance and the costs they incurred for printing, shipping, marketing, and distribution ," Dinah Dunn, a partner at the book packager Indelible Editions, tells Mental Floss. Source: Why Hardcover Books Are Published First | Mental Floss Blue Hand Books doesn't do hardcovers.

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  Dana Lou Lone Hill  Oyate WačhíŋyAŋpi (age 47) February 29, 1972 ~ November 15, 2019 (her obituary is on her author page) An Inspiring Lakota Writer, Activist her writing for the Lakota Country Times Dana Lone Hill, Oyate WačhíŋyAŋpi was a dedicated Native woman, mother, writer and activist with a family history full of notable Lakota people on both sides of her parentage. Dana can rest assured that her place in her tribe, the Oglala Lakota, is undisputable. On her mother’s side, she is the granddaughter of Susie Shot In The Eye, noted for walking back from Canada to be with her people and for being one of the most recognized Women Warriors, having fought in the Battle at Greasy Grass. GUARDIAN ARTICLES She fought valiantly alongside her sons Rock, Lone Hill and High Wolf along with her husband Shot In the Eye. On her paternal side, her grandfather is Lone Elk who was later named Caesar and his wife Mattie Shields. Lone Elk is noted for bein...

"Buffalo Dreams" ebook by our Blue Indians author Jaga'de is available in the Kindle Store here .  Price :$3.99. PRICE REDUCED! Jaga'de explains: Dreams are a great source of healing.  Often they will exaggerate to get your attention. This book is an attempt to help people realize the importance of dreams in our daily lives. When I lost my beloved husband of 42 years, grief took on an aspect I did not imagine.  I had grieved more for my dogs than for human beings.  My husband’s walking on left me staggering in unexpected ways, ways in which I could not have prepared myself.  It was as if the world had blown up and me with it.  The pieces are still falling out of the sky.  And yet, I have learned so much in the two years of sorrow.  I have lost, but I have also gained. Once again a dream gave me strength to go on. Perhaps you have a question you would like to have answered.  The answers can come at any time, in many wa...

The brand new book BUFFALO DREAMS (under the imprint BLUE INDIANS COLLECTIVE) by Jaga'de, and new editions of Sleeps with Knives by Trace Hentz are out!     John Christian Hopkins will be publishing a collection of his humorous columns for the Westerly Sun newspaper in 2020.                     NEW 2020 TITLE:    Crockett's Gold    To read a preview of Sleep with Knives:  here

This blog post by Nicholas C. Rossis in Publishing has a series explaining the history of publishing. Also watch the movie THE WIFE with Glenn Close to get an idea of the male dominated industry.... Trace A Brief History of 20th Century Publishing As Kristen Lamb points out in her must-read post, Goliath has Fallen & What This Means for Writers , publishing worked in a pretty standard way for over a century. Writers would take their books to publishers. If their pitch was successful, the publishers would then sign them on, publish the books, and distribute them to smaller chains and independent bookstores around the country. The leaders in charge of the publishing business knew they had three jobs: Protect the writers, producers of the product publishers sold. Protect the bookstores, distributors of books. Protect the readers, consumers of books. These are listed in order of importance. If there are no writers, then there is no content: no stories, no books, no...

We did publish Two Worlds: Lost Children (Second Edition) on KOBO in Canada in 2017. These are our current stats (July 2019): #200 in Nonfiction , History , Americas , North America #331 in Nonfiction , History , Canada #4093 in Biography & Memoir , Historical You can also set up an account and do your ebook. HERE LINK TO BUY: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/two-worlds-second-edition-vol-1  ...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hentz releases new creative non-fiction Greenfield, Massachusetts [2018]   --   “There is a clear sense of urgency in my new book, on a vast variety of topics ” said Blue Hand Books founder and award winning journalist Trace L Hentz, author of   Mental Midgets| Musqonocihte “It’s a Miracle We’ve Survived This Far,” (ISBN: 9781731074010 , Publisher: Blue Indians Books, Massachusetts).   “It’s quite clear we are distressed with changes all around us, and it’s gone global,” Hentz explained.   “John Trudell said it best in an interview I share in the book. ‘ The answer is NON-COOPERATION and a clear coherent thinking human being…”  Trudell didn’t waste words. Neither does Hentz. She describes t his twin book as a collection of factoids, thoughts, quips, code, quotes, photos, thought bombs, creative non-fiction, Native American history and prose. And it’s short (91 pages).   Musqonichte translates ...