Young Adult to New Adult
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Young adult novels are typically of the fiction genre and are aimed at people from fourteen to twenty-one years of age. Yet, many young adult consumers…
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Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2017 and the Status of the Publishing Industry
Jonathan Smith//Blog Writer Some say that a year is only as good as the literature read within its 365 days. In that sense, 2017 was actually phenomenal. For the…
The Rise in Thrillers: Cue “Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Angie Haas//Blog Writer It, Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, and Happy Death Day. What do these movies have in common? They all fall into the horror/thriller genre and were all released…
Could Internships be the Answer to the Publishing Industry’s Diversity Problem?
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer It’s a problem even STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medical) fields face—a lack of diversity. In publishing the lack of diversity can be harder to…
Self-Discovery in Self-Publishing
Cynthia Ayala // Blog Writer I was seventeen when I published my first novel. It was awful; I regret it every day. The book, not the experience. But it taught…
What Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016 Say about Publishing
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Amazon, one of the largest booksellers in the world, publishes a list of its top 100 bestsellers each year. Though there are still two months…