MSI Press Blog

  In San Juan Bautista, generosity doesn’t announce itself. It sits quietly on a bench outside the post office, in a box of Meyer lemons or apples or persimmons or potatoes or corn or cabbage or carrots. It lives in the pantry cabinet tucked against the wall across from the post office in the small and shopping "center" in town and on two-shelf book cabinets nailed to posts around town, always stocked with a variety of books and pantry staples. It shows up in the way people take what they need and leave what they can, without fuss or fanfare. And then there’s the last lemon. Anyone who has ever left produce out for neighbors has seen it: a big box disappears quickly, but one lone lemon remains. It can sit there all day, untouched. Not because no one wants it, but because no one wants to take the last one. That tiny hesitation reveals something profound about how a community sees itself. The last lemon becomes a symbol — of courtesy, of restraint, of the assumption that s...

Today's Publisher's Pride is  He's a Porn Addict...Now What?  by Tony Overbay and Joshua Shea , which reached  #95 in sexual addiction & recovery and #121 in sexual health recovery on Amazon . Book description: Admitting you're a drug addict or alcoholic can be difficult, but when it comes to pornography addiction, the pain of betrayal can hit the addict's partner worse than the addict himself. Difficult questions come rushing: Does he look at this stuff because I'm not enough? Was he like this when I first met him? Is this God trying to test me? What kind of help is available for him? Am I just supposed to stay here and deal with this? With  He's a Porn Addict...Now What?: An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions , you'll get pertinent answers from both sides of the equation: from a therapist and from a former pornography addict. Keywords: porn addiction, recovery and healing, spouse and partner support, betrayal trauma, sexual addiction,...

  There’s a strange disconnect in publishing right now. Industry headlines keep celebrating “growth” — more bookstores opening, online sales climbing, the market expanding. And all of that is technically true. But here’s the part no one says out loud: Those gains are not evenly distributed. They’re driven by big-name authors, celebrity memoirs, BookTok darlings, and the handful of titles that already had momentum. For the new author — the debut novelist, the hybrid author with a modest platform, the memoirist writing from lived experience — those rosy numbers don’t translate into visibility. In fact, they often mask the opposite reality. Because while bookstore sales are up, the number of books published each year has exploded . More titles, more noise, more competition for the same shelf space and the same algorithmic scraps. Which brings us to the real conversation: Direct sales aren’t a trend. They’re a survival strategy. Why Every Author Should Be Building Direct Sal...