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Love Books? Join the AP Street Team of Advance Readers!

Love Books? Join the AP Street Team of Advance ...

What is an advance reader and what is the AP Street Team? Publishing companies rely on advance readers—people who read an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) of a book and leave...

Love Books? Join the AP Street Team of Advance ...

What is an advance reader and what is the AP Street Team? Publishing companies rely on advance readers—people who read an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) of a book and leave...

Seed of the Black Oak Author Q&A

Seed of the Black Oak Author Q&A

Meet Christian Chiakulas: Fantasy Author, Teacher, Game Designer, and More. By: Sarah Azman We are thrilled to announce the 9/1/26 release of Seed of the Black Oak, an adult fantasy...

Seed of the Black Oak Author Q&A

Meet Christian Chiakulas: Fantasy Author, Teacher, Game Designer, and More. By: Sarah Azman We are thrilled to announce the 9/1/26 release of Seed of the Black Oak, an adult fantasy...

Book Banning Then and Now

Book Banning Then and Now

What's changed, and what's stayed the same. By: Sarah Azman Book banning is not new. Even before the twentieth century, governments restricted access to texts for a variety of reasons,...

Book Banning Then and Now

What's changed, and what's stayed the same. By: Sarah Azman Book banning is not new. Even before the twentieth century, governments restricted access to texts for a variety of reasons,...

Intimacy Scenes: An “Our Opinion” Piece

Intimacy Scenes: An “Our Opinion” Piece

By: Sarah Azman Ever wondered how an editor chooses whether to include an intimacy scene in a written work? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how our company and our managing...

Intimacy Scenes: An “Our Opinion” Piece

By: Sarah Azman Ever wondered how an editor chooses whether to include an intimacy scene in a written work? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how our company and our managing...

Women’s Stories Matter: The Bechdel Test, the Smurfette Principle, and Intentional Representation

Women’s Stories Matter: The Bechdel Test, the S...

By: Sarah Azman Male main characters in movies outnumber female main characters by more than two to one, according to a 2012 study spanning 57 years.¹ Why is this data...

Women’s Stories Matter: The Bechdel Test, the S...

By: Sarah Azman Male main characters in movies outnumber female main characters by more than two to one, according to a 2012 study spanning 57 years.¹ Why is this data...

Sneak Peek: The Light of Lúnasa Sequel

Sneak Peek: The Light of Lúnasa Sequel

Clíona Murphy returns to the Otherworld in 2027 … will you follow her? By Sarah Azman Photo by Kevin Bosc on Unsplash Alex Parker Publishing is excited to announce the...

Sneak Peek: The Light of Lúnasa Sequel

Clíona Murphy returns to the Otherworld in 2027 … will you follow her? By Sarah Azman Photo by Kevin Bosc on Unsplash Alex Parker Publishing is excited to announce the...