Blue Hand Books

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.