Before I was a book review editor, I worked for decades as a journalist. I used to think that I would work for newspapers forever. It was my calling. I had ink in my blood. Then I watched as newspapers refused to adapt or change and the... Read More

Any biologist will tell you that a species cannot survive, long-term, in a monoculture. New, fresh genetic material is necessary to make it robust and able to fend off disease, bad weather, or genetic mutation. It’s why we don’t... Read More

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: June 24, 2017—Foreword Reviews, a media company focusing on independently published books, announced the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards today during the American Library Association’s Annual... Read More

Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, by Bobbie Malone, (University of Oklahoma Press) is our 2016 Nonfiction Book of the Year. From erotic poetry that fuels the flames of passion to instructions on how to build a nuclear weapon, books perform... Read More

Editor’s Note: The subject of this feature was chosen from #INDIEStory Twitter pitches among finalists in our INDIES Book of the Year Award contest. Kids in the 8-12 age group are inundated with chapter books, and to a slightly lesser... Read More

As we spent the past few months examining thousands of books sent to our office here in Traverse City, Michigan, and narrowing them down to these INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalists, we found that we could easily move many of them... Read More

As a lifelong First Amendment fan, they had me at “censored.” The very title of a nonprofit group’s annual compilation, Project: Censored—aka “news that didn’t make the news”—seems to symbolize the spirit and intent of... Read More