BookBaby Spotlight

In this episode, we talk about the scope and depth of an international lens for women's history month. Angel Trazo is a second-generation Filipina-American writer who wrote her debut children's book "We Are Inspiring: the stories of 32 Asian American women." She describes the lives of Asian women who have influenced literature, art, and physics from Helen Zia, the first Asian American Princeton graduate to Dr. Chien Shiung whose research proved a contradiction in the law of conversation in nuclear psychics.

You'll also learn about front matter, table of contents, formatting logistics for e-books, and exclusive stuff for self-publishers.

In this episode, we speak to Jeannine Cook and Dr. DeWitt Williams about independent bookstores and authors' role and impact on literature, while focusing on the history of black women and leaders for Black History Month. 

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For our season finale, BookBaby author Amanda McCann joins us to discuss her seasonal children's book Halloweenie, and BookBaby President Jim Foley announces two new exciting services: Bookshop Analytics and AI Narrated Audiobooks!

BookBaby President Emeritus Steven Spatz joins the podcast to talk about the environmentally-friendly upgrades to BookBaby's factory and what the rest of the year holds for self-publishing. After that, sustainable tourism expert Dr. Rachel Dodds joins us to talk about the book she co-authored, "Are We There Yet: Traveling More Responsibly with Your Children".

Our June episode celebrates PRIDE Month, featuring interviews with Katherine Milon Philly AIDs Thrift @ Giovanni's Room, the US's oldest operating LGBTQ bookstore, located in Philadelphia, and Phoenix Baldwin, author and illustrator of DinoToons, an inclusive online comic and children's book series!

Fresh off her Netflix debut, metal-welder Rae Ripple joins the BookBaby Spotlight podcast to discuss self-publishing her children's book When I Grow Up.

BookBaby author and professor Candice Rowser joins the podcast this month to discuss her book, Engaged Citizen, and explain how she's using Linktree and TikTok. We also talk about the Newberry Medal's 100th Anniversary.

The BookBaby Spotlight is back for season 3! Learn tips for avoiding scam artists in the self-publishing space and hear from Rob Anderson (@heartthrobanderson), who became our bestseller for the year with some well-timed tweets and tik-toks.

Happy Halloween BookBabies! Self-published horror writers JS Nelson and Nati del Paso join the podcast to talk about their craft and upcoming releases, while VP of Operations, Joel Maxey, calms everyone's fears over the state of our printshop heading into the holidays, on the season finale of the BookBaby Spotlight podcast!

The unsung hero of late night writer’s block and crumpled pages is that fresh pot of coffee, helping countless writers push on with their labors of love! But did you know that humble cup of joe comes with incredible health benefits too? Dr. Sanjiv Chopra joins the podcast to talk about his book "Coffee: The Magical Elixir" being published this Fall with BookBaby.

The president of BookBaby, Steven Spatz, zooms with us to talk about the second half of 2021 and how indie authors should be prepping for their Christmas release! We also catch up with Angela Bole, CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association!

Oriana Leckert of Kickstarter joins the podcast and BookBaby author Ryan Brolliar tells us about his crowdfunded national tour!

BookBaby-published poets Patricia Vollmann-Stock and Christina Lee join the podcast to discuss their work during National Poetry Writing Month! We also hear about Brad Eck’s story of hope in the face of autism and BookBaby sales-person Ramona Pina shares her poem “Beacon” in this jam-packed episode of the BookBaby Spotlight!

Lots cookin' on this month's episode of the BookBaby Spotlight! Indie authors Tracy Wilk and Patience Awazi join us to talk about their respective cookbooks and a BookBaby designer explains how she works with mouth-watering recipes!

BookBaby author Renee Berry talks about diversity in children’s literature and traditionally-published author Steven Rowley discusses his journey to a debut advance in the February episode of the BookBaby Spotlight!

Editor, literary coach, and co-executive of the EFA, Christina Frey joins the podcast to discuss all things editing! 

Happy Halloween BookBaby-ers! Pendleton Weiss joins me to talk horror writing and his anthology That Old, Misty Country!

BookBaby author Susan Soares had her book unexpectedly highlighted by Jimmy Fallon!

Karen Jefferies (insta: @hilariously_infertile) was our guest on this episode of the BookBaby Spotlight podcast to talk about her book, Hilariously Infertile, along with an appearance from BookBaby president Steven Spatz.

A writer for the TV show, Invader Zim, Eric Trueheart comes up with new slogans for BookBaby and tells us about his Medium-Sized Book of Zim Scripts!

Julie Beddingfield, owner of Inkwood Books NJ, joins the pod to talk about how covid-19 is affecting her indie bookstore and what it takes to convince her to order your book and sell it to her customers!

Learn how the Free Library of Philadelphia is adjusting in response to the coronavirus pandemic from their director of author events, Andy Kahan!

The head curator of the HSPPA, James Azrael, joins us to discuss how he used Kickstarter to get his book published, his gluten-free horror-themed bakery, and his three BookBaby titles!

Marissa Eigenbrood and Lindsey Brodowski of Smith Publicity stop by our office for a discussion about book marketing and industry trends!

BookBaby designer Gina Stewart discusses some of the nearly 1,000 books she's designed and gives some tips for potential authors!