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Cowboy and rancher Grahame Beer has published This Cowboyin’ Thing: Ranch and Farm Tales from the North West, a new poetry collection drawn from more than 40 years on the Canadian prairies.

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Joseph Howse’s The Circus and the Atom won top honors in World Literature and Audiobook-Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award, with additional recognition for cover design.

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Psychotherapist Dr. Maureen B. Roberts has published StarDreaming, a nonfiction account of a prophetic dream that preceded and foreshadowed her relationship with award-winning science fiction author Damien Broderick.

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USA TODAY bestselling author J.J. Hebert’s urban fantasy novel The Breaking of Time: Chronicles of the Arvynth won the Gold Medal in the Fiction – Fantasy – Urban category at the 2026 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest.

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Gary E Smith’s And So It Goes won first place in the Political Thriller category at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

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The Lab Press is turning its first year of publishing into an awards run, with honors across the IPPY Awards, IBPA, Foreword INDIES and other book and design contests.

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Author and educator Brooke Carnwath has released Far From the Ocean’s Edge, a middle-grade novel about a Maine girl searching for the father she has never met. The book, published by She Writes Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, centers on…

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Author and nurse leader Cherie L. Davis has released The Maps We Make: A Poetry Collection, a seven-movement book shaped by personal experiences from childhood, marriage and healthcare to therapy, recovery and reflection.

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Ran Dolph Poole’s The Provident Events follows two men whose friendship deepens as their personal crises escalate, then comes under strain from secrets, family danger and emotional fallout.

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Michael Sabella’s THROUGH BLOOD AND FOG follows a young Sicilian man pulled into corruption, violence, and family secrets that stretch from 1889 Sicily to 1890s San Francisco.

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Plotsy has signed Kindle Storyteller Award winner G J Ogden for Forsaken Commander, the first Aternien Wars novel, as the next title for its Plotsy vBook format.

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Author Neva Rose’s debut novel, By Any Other Name, follows a woman whose discovery of her birth certificate opens a deeper search into family history, belonging, and African American identity.

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Author and nurse leader Cherie L. Davis has released The Maps We Make: A Poetry Collection, a personal work shaped by grief, healthcare, anxiety and resilience.

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Kathy S Garrett has released Through the Dark Valley, a prose-and-poetry work shaped by her husband’s death after nearly 50 years of marriage.

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Jack Pendleton’s fourth Professor Spectre novel, The Curse of Castle Dracula and Professor Spectre, is set for release Oct. 10, 2026. The upstate New York supernatural thriller follows Dalton Peck into a cursed carnival dark ride renovation that…

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Main Street Rag Publishing Company will publish Towards Unbuilt Places, the second poetry collection from award-winning poet Louis Efron.

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Author and historian Rachel J. Lithgow held a public signing for My Year of Really Bad Dates at Book Report in Port Washington, New York, on Aug. 11, 2026. The event paired a meet-and-greet and Q&A with a growing local bookstore’s push to champion…

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Liza Martini’s first picture book, Today I Joined a Preschool, has been released through Atmosphere Press and is aimed at children starting preschool or kindergarten.

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Miami author, independent publisher and civic leader Javier A. Betancourt will launch his debut novel, Maya Lin & The Ancient Order of Seshat, in the arQitect on Sept. 22 at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

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Michael K. Bender has released The Listener, a psychological suspense novel about a forensic psychologist who returns to her Catskills hometown and finds herself watched for years.