By Grace Mattsen If you care about writing, reading, or publishing, you are likely familiar with the digital publisher, Substack. The venture-backed subscription-based company explores an alternative to traditional publishing, offering a place for writers to share their ideas while…
by Elisabeth Grass All throughout 2022, I think I read a total of maybe twelve books—including those I needed toread for school. At the beginning of 2023, I decided I wanted to get back into reading. It was something I…
by Teya Sorenson, author of This Cursed Death, Wilde Press Spring ’23 Author In July of 2021 while hacking my way through the lengthy writing process of another project, I sat down to write a brief scene between two characters…
By Ana Sophia Garcia Cubas Assemat Allow me to paint what may be a familiar picture: You get a book recommendation. Maybe from your mom, a friend, or Tiktok, but you hear about a book that you simply must get…
By Meg Rady How reliable is Booktok? Today, the social media subculture has taken the reading community by storm. By dictating the latest trends and taking over sections at bookstores, it is hard not to stumble upon a book recommended…
Leanna Florez // Blog Writer Writer’s block is the most feared enemy of any writer. NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, offers us a chance to break out of the creative sinkhole we’ve been sucked into; but despite the appeal…
Ana Garcia-Cubas Assemat // Blog Writer In an interview with Goodreads, neuroscientist and romance author Ali Hazelwood confessed that she struggled to write her second book, which followed the debut that landed her on the bestseller lists. Her first book,…
Emma Shacochis // Blog Director Not every author who includes diverse characters in their stories is going to be doing so from an #OwnVoices perspective, but they still may hope to properly portray their characters. In these cases, authors will…
Allison Armijo // Blog Writer How do you define “queer”? Do you see it? Do you feel it? Use one definition or many? Is it an assault, or a celebration? I guess that depends. Alison Bancroft, media culture specialist from…
Julia Brukx // Blog Assistant The city of Salem, Massachusetts, site of the infamous seventeenth-century witch trials and bustling October tourist attraction, announced recently that they would be shutting down for the two weeks before Halloween—traditionally their biggest weekends of…
