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If you're into psychological thrillers, we have a riveting ride for you: Shadowlands, a "horror story with monsters, sans any blood and drool." Written by Alan Kessler, the book tells the story of Steve Goldblatt, a troubled man who descends ...

Always wanting to learn more about authors, new releases, and writing advice, we recently interviewed author David Temple, who worked with Vook to create his latest ebook, Stealing Hope. It's a poignant novel about the Mathesons family, who must overcome ...

Whether you're Italy-bound or a Dan Brown devotee, Sara Bruni's new e-trilogy will be your guide. The author was born and raised in Siena, Italy, and now she's sharing her knowledge of Italy's sights, culture, and secrets with a three-part ...

We say hello to flight attendants every time we hop on a plane; but do we really know what goes on behind the galley curtain? Since 2025, flight attendant and blogger Sara Keagle has been offering a behind-the-scenes look into ...

In the first-of-its-kind YA/middle grade enhanced novel, young readers can engage with each other and the author through online discussions thanks to embedded links directing them to this forum. Vook recently started offering this WeJIT technology for ebooks of all ...

Social media facts, statistics, and marketing What if you one ebook told you everything you need to know about every social media platform out there? Social media-marketing guru Esteban Contreras has been sharing his knowledge on the subject on his ...

Given our rapidly changing economic landscape, it's more important than ever to reevaluate not just finance, but all sectors in the economy. Capital Institute, a "non-partisan, transdisciplinary Collaborative Space," has released an ebook detailing their field study on manufacturing's role ...

A couple weeks ago, one of our VookMakers stopped me in the office. "I just read an entire manuscript, start-to-finish, while building the ebook," he said. So I promptly downloaded the ebook and was delighted to discover the combination of ...

Out of print, out of fashion, but a gem nonetheless, a 1935 Christmas story gets a new life in Helen S. Michaelsen's musical ebook, The Call of Mektoub. It's a melodic "advent" ebook, in which a chapter unfolds for each ...

Last summer, VookMaker Adam Schnapper completed production on Manoush Zomorodi's stunning video-enhanced ebook, Camera Ready. This week, Adam and Manoush sat down to talk about the project. Watch the video below and check out Camera Ready on Vook's store! If ...

Splitting her time between New York City, Milan, and countless travels, author Joanna Crispi writes novels as worldly as she is. Just released on Vook's store, Soldier in the Grass takes place in the civil war-ridden Congo and follows a ...

Husband and wife author duo Thomas and Dorothy Hoobler have written over 90 books for readers of all ages, including the popular six-book Samurai Detective series for young adults, now available on Vook.com. Set in "the age when Samurai ruled ...

Passing down recipes, a 1985 cookbook becomes a 2025 eBook. Having studied at Le Cordon Blue and La Varenne, Silvia Lehrer opened a cooking school, Cooktique, in 1976, and published her definitive cookbook, Cooking at Cooktique, in 1985. Now Silvia ...

Literary agent Scott Waxman saw the value in ePublishing eight years before Amazon released its game-changing Kindle. Having worked for HarperCollins as an editor, Scott founded The Waxman Literary Agency (now the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency) in 1997, representing fiction ...

An established author tells us what it takes to make a successful, self-published YA eBook. Obsessed with folklore and odd historical occurrences, young-adult and middle-grade historical fantasy author Kate Milford meshed her preoccupations with fantastic success in The Boneshaker, the ...

Mary Mackey, author of thirteen novels and six volumes of poetry, has participated in almost every step of the publishing revolution. In 1972, she physically helped print her first novel in a garage (home to the legendary Shameless Hussy Press). ...

Author of 32 novels, numerous screen plays, short stories and plays, at 84 Warren Adler could be content to enjoy his success—but there’s no retirement for artists, especially not artist-entrepreneurs. And especially not in the digital era. We’re pleased to ...

The world of digital self-publishing is ultra-competitive. "Smashwords publishes 127,000 titles by 44,000 writers," Forbes magazine recently reported, and Amazon by some estimates has over 800,000 titles available in the Kindle Store. How do independent authors stand out in this ...

Brian Brushwood’s book Scam School Book 1 went from notes to a published, best-selling eBook in just six weeks. With a true success story like that we knew we had to get Brian to agree to share his secrets. Luckily, ...

Heather Stimmler Hall is a Vook tester who’s achieved our dream for the closed beta—she’s helped us improve the platform and produced an ebook she’s actually making money from. Heather writes guidebooks to France, offers private tours of Paris and ...