Spreading the Self-Pub Love This Week

(updated and modified 7/21/25)

Once again, it’s Self-Published Author Appreciation Week. This year, I’m all about spreading the love for self-published works…

This is our annual tribute to those authors who take it all on themselves–all the work, all the risks, all the costs, and all the (too small) rewards. They’re the independents, the mavericks, the risk-takers, those who won’t let their creative vision be reined in by others, they’re out there doing things on their own (with a small group of others they’ve teamed up with on their own). These are the Mal Reynoldses of the Literary World.

Really, every week on this blog is Author Appreciation Week, but you can see why we’re eager to take one week to focus on the Self-Pub warriors among them, right? I want to throw out my appreciation as well to Jodie of Witty & Sarcastic Book Club who started this some time back, and keeps it going.

How am I going to show my appreciation/love this year? Well, hopefully, I’ll be able to find the time to write posts about some recent self-published reads of mine and some great lists of Self-Published books I’ve read already for you to check out (this honestly doesn’t seem likely, but here’s hoping!). I will, of course, have my annually updated lists of Self-Published works by Genre that I’ve talked about on this site. I will also have four quick(ish) videos talking with some Self-Published Authors about the Business-side of Self-Publishing (more on that later today)

But the big focus this year is on Spreading the Self-Pub Love (see the title of this post). I enjoyed doing it last year, and wanted to do it again. The Number One thing that Self-Published Authors need are readers to appreciate them–and who better to recommend some than other self-published authors? So I’ve asked some to drop by and recommend a self-published book that deserves more eyeballs. (you’ll note that some of these authors couldn’t/wouldn’t limit themselves to one…such mavericks).

The featured posts this week will come from some names familiar to readers of this blog, and a good number of new names (hopefully they’ll pop up enough to be familiar to you soon):

Stick around and see what they recommend, and have to offer themselves!

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