Et Alia Press

12/28/2025

Sarah Catherine Gutierrez’s spirit of helpfulness really shines through in this Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / ArkansasOnline.com High Profile. SC founded Aptus Financial as an antidote to biased investing advice and now helps more than 600 clients through her flat fee approach, empowering them to make money decisions for rainy days and dream retirements.

We’re proud to have published SC’s first book, BUT FIRST, SAVE 10, which has sold over 6,000 copies and helped thousands build lives of their own design through saving. AND, stay tuned for our announcement of SC’s next book, forthcoming this spring!

Congratulations on this well-deserved spotlight SC!

12/23/2025

Looking for a last minute gift idea? Give a writing coaching session, manuscript editing, or a publishing consultation! Does your person need help comceptualizing a writing project or knowing how to get started in the often overwhelming publishing process? Erin Wood can help with nonfiction and children’s books in any of these areas. Email hello at etaliapress dot com and let’s plan something that’s just right for them!

12/15/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/99256-supreme-court-denies-petition-to-hear-little-v-llano-county.html

After the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County last May, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to hear the case, in which a Texas library removed books on ideological grounds.

12/12/2025

Thanks to University of Arkansas at Little Rock for this spotlight! Getting my masters at UA Little Rock took me in unexpected but totally fitting directions, helping me transtion away from practicing law and leading me to a career in writing, editing, and publishing. Thanks also to the awesome South Main Creative for giving the thumbs up to a photoshoot in front of the Et Alia Press book booth there.

Erin Wood didn’t plan on becoming a publisher. But when a family loss pushed her to rethink everything, she followed a creative calling — one that led her back to ... UA Little Rock Alumna Erin Wood Finds Her Calling in Writing, Editing, and Publishing

12/09/2025

Happy to be in the Inviting Arkansas holiday gift guide alongside local businesses like our friends at Rhea Drug 💝 Order your signed copies of the two award-winning books featured! From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song by Arkansongs with 30 portraits by Katherine Strause (winner of the 2025 Arkansiana Award) and Cypress Knees and Tupelo Trees: Discovering Plants and Animals of the Swamp by (2024 Library of Congress Great Read for Youth). 🎄 🎶 🐊 🎶 🎄

12/05/2025

All set up next to at ! Come on out and shop books by Arkansas authors and 60+ Arkansas vendors from 11-7 at TODAY! 🎄

12/02/2025

Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models

11/30/2025

is THIS Friday in Little Rock at Pleasant Valley Country Club! We look forward to helping you pick Arkansas books by Arkansas authors for all the readers on your Christmas list. Doors open at 11 for holiday shopping with 60 local vendors. The first guests to arrive will receive complimentary mimosas and the first 200 guests will receive the tote bag pictured. Be sure to bring boxed pasta and peanut butter to donate to . Can’t wait to see you there!

11/28/2025

Make yourself happy by making stuff! 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏻

Living up to their creative potential might be the simplest way for someone to improve their life. “Make creativity a life habit,” Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2024. “That means working at your creative practice regularly, not just when you feel like it.” https://theatln.tc/4pZMmtRv

Modern research in neuroscience and psychology has revealed that actively engaging in creative pursuits is an effective way to gain relief from negative emotions and increase one’s sense of well-being. In 2021, researchers found that for students and working adults, there’s a positive correlation between self-perceived creativity and life satisfaction. Activities such as poetry therapy can also “reduce anxiety and post-traumatic-stress symptoms in patients,” Brooks continues. Even “simply working on creative solutions to common problems can relieve psychological burdens.”

“I have found that many professional artists—an unusually anxious group—seek relief from their affliction by losing themselves,” Brooks writes. Neuroscience offers an explanation for how creativity can lower negative emotions: A 2015 study found that during the idea-generation phase of writing, the part of the brain associated with mind-wandering is especially active. This “suggests that creative activity might have some of the same analgesic effects on stress as contemplative exercises do,” Brooks explains.

With so many creative outlets to choose from, finding one that “fits your personality and tastes can be daunting,” Brooks explains. Luckily, your personality type can offer clues: “Extroverted, novelty-seeking people should try inventive, public avenues such as improv drama and jazz; introverted people who like new experiences might do better in the field of fiction writing,” Brooks writes. “Extroverts who prefer to interpret the works of others can try theater or classical music; introverts in the same vein might prefer studying poetry.”

Regardless of your chosen artistic activity, you will benefit from exercising your creative brain. “Make a habit of your creative pursuit, and feel better as a result—and maybe even inspired,” Brooks continues.

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🎨: Jan Buchczik

11/25/2025

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Real talk for a minute? Small Business Saturday is this weekend, and if you weren’t planning on doing some of your holiday shopping with small businesses, I BEG you to reconsider and take the time to see what some of your local and online small businesses have to offer. It’s been a rough couple of years for all of us. Every small business owner I talk to feels like we’re in economic limbo and we’re just trying to ride the never-ending wave that surely, hopefully HAS to reach shore on some pretty beach sometime soon for the love of god. We felt this way at the beginning of 2020, when we had to close all our stores and hope people would support from afar. And the magical thing was, THEY DID. For a lot of us small business owners, it really restored our faith. Let’s be real… I know we’re all in a rough place financially right now. And unlike in 2020, now we don’t have stimulus checks, PPP loans from the government, and to top it off, we have tariffs. (Seriously. I’m trying to eat those tariffs and price increases so you don’t have to, but it’s getting hard.) Anyway, I just wanted to put away my woodland animal magic and middle finger necklaces to be serious for a second and to ask, if you have the means, and if you’re planning on holiday shopping, please, support small businesses. And support small ONLINE businesses, too. I’m still here doing what I love and making the weirdest, most intricate, woodsy, nature-y, curse-wordy, funny, and empowering jewelry, even if I don’t have the emotional bandwidth anymore to run a physical shop. Running an online store is hard enough 😅 Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. I love you. I really do. P.S. www.bangupbetty.com 😘

11/14/2025

Narratively Memoir Prize open now through December 7 with $3k prize!

Submit your personal essay for a chance to win $3,000, publication on Narratively—plus in print!—and have your story read by our #1 New York Times bestselling guest judge.