In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more:

https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows

Consider them as you read, and nominate and vote for awards.

#sff #genre #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy #LiteraryAwards #GenreFiction #books

If you're writing romance, sci-fi, or fantasy, you should know: self-publishing is incredibly popular in genre fiction. More authors are choosing to self-publish for creative control and faster publishing times. What's been your biggest self-publishing win this year? #romancebooks #genrefiction #selfpublishing #indieauthor #kindleUnlimited

#romancebooks #genrefiction #selfpublishing #indieauthor #kindleUnlimited

My fingers have been gliding over the keys, and I've got a new #blogpost for you.

All about My Favourite Reading Genre.

https://forkingmad.blog/this-is-my-genre-golden-age-detectives/

Thanks @alexandra for the prompt.

#reading #crimeFiction #goldenAgeCrime  #GenreFiction

Writing romance or genre fiction? Consider self-publishing! It's a popular route for genre authors. You retain creative control and earn higher royalties. We've seen an 87% bestseller rate among our authors. What's been your biggest self-publishing win this year? #genreFiction #selfpublishing #indieauthor #writingcommunity #bookpublishing

#genreFiction #selfpublishing #indieauthor #writingcommunity #bookpublishing

I listen to audiobooks to wind down so I can sleep. I’m looking for recommendations! Fiction only, please.

I’m very particular about the narrator:
Single voice actor only
Distinct characters
No monotone delivery
No background music/sounds/distractions (I loved reading Dune but couldn’t tolerate the audiobook)

Examples I love:
Chronicles of St. Mary’s (Zara Ramm, narrator)
Malabar House series (Maya Saroya, narrator)
Rivers of London series (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, narrator)
Murderbot Diaries (Kevin R. Free, narrator)
Logan MacRae series (Steve Worsley, narrator)

If you have similar favourites, what are they?

#VoiceActor
#Audiobook
#GenreFiction

Cornell University: Digital humanities scholars chart lost art of maps in novels. “Digital humanities scholars from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers of Computing and Information Science have developed a computational system to mine maps from nearly 100,000 digitized books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, discovering that just 1.7% of novels include maps, mostly at the beginning or end, among […]