Looking Back at a Week of Spreading the Self-Pub Love

Self-Published Author Appreciation Week '25 Banner. Banner has a gray bird on a black disk. Around the disk are the words, 'Self Published Authors Appreciation Week.' In the top left corner, it says, 'July 21-27, 2025.' In the bottom right corner it says, '#SPAAW'

Here we are at the tail end of Self-Published Author Appreciation Week, and wow, there’ve been a lot of great posts this year. I hope you all have spent time on the SPAAW Hub to read it all.

Around here, in case you didn’t notice, it was all about spreading the love for self-published works. For the second year in a row, I asked a number of Self-Published authors to plug their newest–or their soon-to-be-released–book and to talk about a self-published work they wanted to get extra eye-balls on.

We heard from:

JCM Berne
Tom Bookbeard
A.J. Calvin
Thomas J Devens
Livia J. Elliot
Shannon Knight
James T. Lambert
David T. List
Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Michael Michel
DB Rook
Ben Schenkman
K. Q. Watson

I want to thank them for their time and contributions, yet one more time. Each of you have increased by TBR. I’ll probably be thankful for that at some point, but right now it’s a bit overwhelming.

(Kidding! (mostly))

So, what was mentioned by these august writers (in July)? We didn’t have anyone recommend the same title as someone else this year, which is pretty cool. It’s a diverse batch of 28 titles–something will likely appeal to everyone who reads it. Likely multiple somethings.

Cover of Grimdwarf, vol. 1 by JCM Berne Cover for A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair
Cover of The Corsair by Tom Bookbeard to be Revealed Cover of Wraith and the Revolution by A.J. Calvin
Cover for The Silent Places by Skyla Dawn Cameron Cover for Where Blood Runs Gold by A.C. Cross
Cover of The Dregs by Thomas J Devens Cover for The Scroungers by Thomas J. Devens
Cover for Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Cover of The Genesis of Change by Livia J. Elliot
Cover of Domestication by Shannon Knight Cover of Relics of War by James T. Lambert
Cover of Violence & Vigilance by David T. List Cover of Dreams of Dust and Steel by Michael Michel
Cover for Kings of Paradise by Richard Nell Cover for The Faerie Knight by David Niemitz
Cover of The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode Cover of The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Cover of Residuum by DB Rook Cover of My Boss is the Devil by Ben Schenkman
Cover for A Dragon of the Veil by Nick Snape Cover for Whispers of the Storm by Z.B. Steele
Cover for Sordaneon by L.L. Stephens Cover for Time-Marked Warlock by Shami Stovall
Cover for The Hallows by H.L. Tinsley Cover of Clipped by K. Q. Watson

Thanks again to all who participated. Thanks to all who read. And thank you to all of those Self-Published Authors out there. I hope you felt appreciated this week.

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