24 books that will make you a more well-rounded person

NATALIE WALTERS, JACQUELYN SMITH, BUSINESS INSIDER | THE INDEPENDENT Do you aspire to be one of those people who knows at least a little bit about a lot of things? One way of doing it is to read as much as you can, and across as wide a range of genres as possible. Read more […]

The lost art of indexes in ebooks

JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES When was the last time you used an index in an ebook? Maybe the better question is this: Have you ever used an index in an ebook? One of the challenges here is that most ebooks don’t have indexes, the result of the misguided notion that text search is a […]

Write a killer memoir: My 9 top tips

ALAN RINZLER | THE BOOK DEAL Want to write a memoir that’s powerful and inspiring? One that has impact, and appeals to a broad popular market? Here’s how. These 9 tips come directly from my 50+ years of working with authors as a developmental editor in major publishing houses and with private clients. 1. Create a […]

Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng

A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s first book, DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN, MEMORY AND MOURNING IN THE BLACK PACIFIC, in June 2016. In Dream of the Water Children, Fredrick Kakinami […]

Are small independent publishers doing the work for big publishers?

KEVIN DUFFY | THE GUARDIAN Here’s an observation: it sometimes feels as though smaller independents are the research and development departments for the big publishers, where literary fiction is concerned. We find great writers, nurture them, wipe their brows, polish their work and buff it until it shines. Then we send them out, readers love […]

2Leaf Press Announces New Series: 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY

2Leaf Press has created a new series 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY.  The first volume of the series will be 2Leaf Press forthcoming tile, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA: BREAKING THE WHAT CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, due for publication in April 2016. 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY was created when […]

Five Words and Phrases Derived from Mistranslations

PAUL ANTHONY JONES | WATERSTONES | OCTOBER 2015 International Translation Day is celebrated each year on the 30th of September—the feast day of St Jerome, the patron saint of translators, who is known for being among the first in history to translate the Bible from Greek into Latin. But translations from one language to another […]

Marlon James, Jamaican Novelist, Wins Man Booker Prize

ALEXANDRA ALTER and KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA | NEW YORK TIMES | OCTOBER 2015 The Jamaican novelist Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” a raw, violent epic that uses the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 to explore Jamaican politics, gang wars and […]

Books kept me alive in prison

ERWIN JAMES || THE GUARDIAN || SEPT. 2015 The end of the ban on sending books to prisoners in the UK reminds me just how vital they were to my survival inside, and to the life I have lived since The official lifting on the ban on sending books to prisoners, which comes into effect […]

2Leaf Press eBooks Now Available on StreetLib and eSentral

There’s been much talk of late about the need to develop ubiquitous bookstores to better compete with Amazon. We agree. While 2Leaf Press eBooks are available on iTunes, Amazon, Kobo, Nook and Google Play, we’re constantly looking at additional options to make our eBooks available to consumers. 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce that its […]

2Leaf Press eBook Titles Now Available Through EBSCO

About three quarters of American public libraries currently lend out e-books, and in the past year libraries have seen a sharp growth in e-book borrowing. At 2Leaf Press, we’re excited about making our eBooks available for library circulation, so we’re pleased to announce that our titles are now available through EBSCO. EBSCO began in 1944 […]

2Leaf Press Authors Signed to Jodi Solomon

We are pleased to announce an exclusive arrangement between Jodi F. Solomon Speaking Bureau and 2Leaf Press to book its authors for speaking engagements. The first roll out of 2Leaf Press authors are: Abiodun Oyewole, J. L. Torres, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez,  and Lynn Levin. We look forward to seeing more 2Leaf Press authors added to […]

Self Image and Poetry: Poet Selfies

READERS+WRITERS JOURNAL “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.” – Ansel Adams What is the relationship between poetry and the selfie? This was one of the questions I sent a number of poets working in different modes. I said they could answer the question, or not, or if they wanted they could include […]

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