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MAILING LIST: I just started a mailing list for my publishing company. Will mail out every 2 months and will include excerpts from my Robert’s Roundup columns and other random stuff. https://booktoot.club/@nagletx. (Mastodon) and nagletx.bsky.social. (Blue Sky).
My Personville Press sells literary titles (mainly short stories) at budget prices (and several freebies). Gradually I have been doing “elevator pitch” videos on YouTube summarizing several of these ebooks in three minutes or so.
Abbreviations: KU means Kindle Unlimited and NYP means “Name Your Price” (that’s an option on Smashwords and other booksellers). If you’d like to submit an ebook to me for review or mention in this column, see my instructions here. Here is my article about methods and search queries I use to locate ebook deals. See also: Indie Author Spotlight, Interviews by RJN,
I’ve been not buying much recently but have been discovering a lot of titles via review services. I’ll be posting about them soon.
How could I be more dense? I wrote a reader’s guide to the Novels of Texas author Clay Reynolds and forgot to link to it in my Roundup last year.
Under the Radar
Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert. (Author website). Here’s a 25 minute interview and a blog. The blog is very entertaining too. I’ve thumbed through the book’s sample and was pleasantly surprised to learn about historical facts and details of private life during that time period. My god, the book’s title will sell the book to most people, but it also happens to be a fascinating book. Also with nice illustrations.
The Hook: A Novel by Jake Seliger. Blog about a high school teacher caught in a sex scandal he didn’t actually do.
Blink and It’s Gone
T.C. Boyle Stories II: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II
Asa Nisi Masa by Jaret Co. Sci fi novel about how “smart contact lenses” allow people where you can switch identities just by blinking. Philipino author who dabbles in lots of things.
Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future by Daniel Cohan. Cohan is a Rice U professor who frequently writes for the Houston Chronicle.
Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza. Novel taking place in Galveston during Hurricane Ike. Written by an author who teaches at UT San Antonio.
The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (Texas Pan American Series) by Octavio Paz, Ruth L. C. Simms
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going by Vaclav Smil. Nice analysis of the world’s leading problems (climate change, etc) which is aimed at the general reader.
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