Artificial IntelligenceAugust 4, 2026
Answer engines have a problem. They have to decide who to name, and almost everything they can read about you was written by you. A book is the only thing you make that gets independently recorded by organizations with no…
Book MarketingAugust 4, 2026
You do not need a professional to record a parent or grandparent talking about their life. You need a phone, two hours, and the discipline to ask about rooms and objects instead of dates. Record it, do it more than…
Book MarketingAugust 4, 2026
Cultured Books is a multicultural children's bookstore on Historic 22nd Street South, founded by Lorielle J. Hollaway in 2017 and paired with a literacy foundation from 2018. It runs as a pop-up, and its Book Report Project lets children buy…
Book MarketingAugust 3, 2026
Four hundred photographs is not a book and it is not a slideshow. A photograph book needs a spine, twenty to forty images doing real work, and text that says what the picture cannot. The common failure is publishing all…
Book MarketingAugust 3, 2026
Mirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library that opened on December 1, 1915 with 2,600 books, one of only ten in Florida, built in Beaux-Arts style. On the National Register since 1986. Story times, therapy dog reading sessions, ESL…
Behind the BookAugust 3, 2026
I wrote this book because I'm angry. Angry that the information is available to anyone who looks and almost nobody in authority acts on it.
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
Two literary magazines are published in this region and both take submissions. Saw Palm, run by graduate students at USF, publishes work connected to Florida and reads from July to October. Tampa Review, published by the University of Tampa since…
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
Most first-time authors budget for the writing and nothing else. The writing is rarely the largest line.
Book MarketingAugust 2, 2026
The Story Garden sells children's books and nothing else, from the ground floor of a two-storey house on 14th Street North. The owner is a former primary teacher, and the free Wednesday story time is built around letting children move…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
The President Barack Obama Main Library is St. Petersburg's main branch, recently reopened after renovation, and one of only two libraries in the county open seven days a week. A real coffee shop inside, bookable study rooms and meeting rooms,…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
The Book Lounge opened on Central Avenue in November 2025, run by a mother and daughter. New fiction only, weighted to romance and romantasy, with wine on tap, charcuterie, and more than a hundred board games. Every book carries a…
Book MarketingAugust 1, 2026
Tim Dorsey wrote 26 novels about a Florida serial killer with a moral code, and researched every one like history. He wrote the first while working nights at the Tampa Tribune, sent an agent the whole manuscript instead of a…
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