Jane Friedman
How to Use Podcast Guesting to Promote Your Nonfiction Book
Base Your Story Structure on Principles, Not Systems
Bookselling trends discussed at ABA’s Winter Institute
Links of Interest: March 4, 2026
Agencies partner up to represent authors of romance and more
New literary agency: Lingua Nova
DK partners with Lego on children’s books
I Hired a Book Publicity Firm for £1,800. Here’s What Went Wrong.
Editing Like a Journalist Will Make Your Publishing Journey Easier
Embrace Quirky: 5 Benefits of Using Animal Point-of-View Characters
New horror imprint at Zando
ALLi launches the Indie Author Bookstore
Spotify launches rankings list, Audiobook Charts
New agent at HJLit
Links of Interest: Feb. 25, 2026
Literary Agents and the Book-to-TV Pipeline: Q&A with Jillian Davis
Come Meet Me at AWP 2026 in Baltimore
What Is a Memoir’s Essential Question and Why Do You Need One?
New agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Audible reminds customers you can seamlessly switch between its audiobooks and Kindle books
Links of Interest: Feb. 18, 2026
New UK publisher: Pellerin Books
Traditional Deals for Self-Pub Authors Grew Significantly in 2025
11 Steps from Your Big Fat Mess to Your Next Draft
What I Learned from Turning Myself Into an AI Chatbot
Why Your Story Keeps Stalling (and How to Get It Moving)
Links of Interest: Feb. 11, 2026
Hachette Children’s Group in the UK launches three new imprints
New agent at L Perkins Agency
IMHO: Why I’m Grateful for the New York Times Article on AI Romance
Book sales update: Feb. 11, 2026
Writing Beyond Ourselves
The Big Mistake That Keeps Writers From Finishing a Novel
Finding the Right Tone for Your Memoir
New agent at The Rights Factory
Washington Post shutters book section after one-third of staff laid off this morning
New contest for novelists around the globe
New agent at Calligraph
Links of Interest: Feb. 4, 2026
How I Navigated My Way to Memoir Deal from a Small Publisher
The Glimmers You Find While Chasing the Whale
How NOT to Confuse Your Readers
New publisher: Homeward Books
Anthropic possibly purchased 1 million print books for scanning and AI model training
Links of Interest: Jan. 28, 2026
Audiobook platform Libro.fm launches annual subscription
We Need Diverse Books launches Unbanned Book Network
Writing at the Intersection of Fear, Politics and Responsibility
What Improv Comedy Taught Me About Writing Novels
The Art of Connective Tissue: What Raymond Carver Teaches Us About Building Character and Showing
Links of Interest: Jan. 21, 2026
New UK prize for novelists: The Libraro Prize
New UK agent at Madeleine Milburn Agency
New agency: Andrew Colvin Creative Agency
On the List: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Pros and Cons of Launching a Book Without a Publicist
When Women Ignore Their Instincts (and Why I Wrote a Novel About It)
Major copyright ruling in the US related to global rights
Links of Interest: Jan. 14, 2026
New industry podcast: Printed
Children’s publisher Marble Press expands to adult categories
New agent at Handspun Literary
Writers and Artists Need a Way to Label AI Use: Here’s What That Could Look Like
Writing Memoir? The Life You Change the Most Is Yours
When You Publish a Career-Changing Book: Q&A with Elinor Florence
New agent at Britt Siess Creative Management
What to Watch for in 2026
Beware of book-into-movie apps
Publishers Marketplace reports 1.9 percent overall growth in US deals
Links of Interest: Jan. 7, 2026
New AI-powered manuscript assessment tool
New agency: Confluence Literary
New agency: Essie White Literary
New agents at Martin Literary Management
The Crucial Ingredient Your Story May Be Missing
The Struggle Is Reel: Marketing Without Social Media
How to Move Your Reader Toward Transformation
Links of Interest: Dec. 31, 2025
Top 10 Clicked Links in 2025
Book sales: The New York Times recaps what sold in 2025
Harlequin switches to AI for English-to-French translation
Public Domain Day
New Publishers and Agents in 2025
Watch for These 2026 Social Media Trends
Write Your Book Like You’d Run a Startup
Links of Interest: Dec. 24, 2025
New agency: Ames Sports Literary & Publicity Agency
UK nonfiction sales: down 8.4 percent in 2025
Division changes at Wattpad WEBTOON Studios
Barnes & Noble and Waterstones may go public in 2026
Crafting Cinematic Action by Scene Segmenting
Comps Can Clinch Your Query
Links of Interest: Dec. 17, 2025
Poetry publishing collective
Walt Disney and OpenAI’s Sora strike a deal
2025 Year in Review
Amazon customers can now easily download DRM-free ebooks
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Use Stress Responses to Strengthen Your Scenes
Please Allow Your Characters Moments of Happiness
No, Colleen Hoover Did Not Email Me: Current Scams Targeting Authors
Links of Interest: Dec. 10, 2025
New agent: Brian King at Metamorphosis
Penguin Random House launches KPop publishing program
New nonfiction publisher: Full Set
Everand and Fable release “state of reading” report
Why Your Memoir Feels Like Rambling (and How to Fix It)
It’s Not About You: Your Memoir Is Someone Else’s Story
My Brush with a Pay-to-Play Book Award
In memoriam: Porter Anderson
Smashwords store adjusts royalty rates for 2026
New literary agency: Starling Literary + Media
Links of Interest: Dec. 3, 2025
UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, creates AI lead
The Case for Shrinking Your Novel
Why Print Never Died
On the List: Troubling Tonsils by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown
Links of Interest: Nov. 26, 2025
James Patterson launches prize for debut books
The Black List partners with Blackstone Publishing
IMHO: AI and the Trough of Despair
Edit Your Book As If It’s a Screenplay
Crafting Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Crime Fiction
Links of Interest: November 19, 2025
New agency: Keystone Literary Agency
New UK freelancer marketplace: BookBindr
Book sales update: romantasy in the UK
Attention authors published by Amazon Publishing
Using the Workplace to Add Depth to Your Novel
How a 100 Rejections Challenge Prepared Me for Life’s Biggest Rejection
What I Got Wrong About Memoir and What I Now Understand About the Genre
Links of Interest: Nov. 12, 2025
New agency: The Alicia Brooks Literary Agency
Are you seeing paperback sales bottom out at IngramSpark?
AI firm wins copyright lawsuit in the UK
Amazon offers free AI translation service to indie authors, raising copyright questions
How Revising My Novel While Querying Helped Me Win a Book Award
What Makes Character Voice Memorable: Emotion
Before You Say Yes: What Writers Need to Know About Anthology Offers
A Deep Divide Emerges Between AI Users and Nonusers
Book sales update: Europe and the UK
Beventi and INKfluence partner up to support direct sales
Indie Author Day event is Nov. 14, free to everyone
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman
Links of Interest: Nov. 5, 2025
New agency: The Swyer Agency
On the List: The Mad Wife by Meagan Church
How I Secured a Big Five Publishing Deal with Almost No Social Media Platform
Make Good Knots: How Learning to Knit Saved My Novel
Prologues That Work and Why
Links of Interest: October 29, 2025
New children’s imprint: Plata Kids
New literary arts fund for literary nonprofits
More Thoughts on Direct Sales
Book sales update: third quarter 2025
The Current State of Hybrid Publishing: Q&A with David Wilk
Sacha Black’s Success with Direct Sales Requires a Warehouse
Links of Interest: October 22, 2025
Royalty Reader: AI-powered software for agents
On the List: On the First Day of Kindergarten by Tish Rabe & Laura Hughes
Authors Who Sell Direct Are Winning the Long Game
Coach Your Characters: A Life Coach’s Toolkit Offers a New Lens
“All Others”: The Memoir Writers Who Keep Going
If you’re seeing Amazon sales or rank declines, this might be why
Links of Interest: October 15, 2025
New publisher: Key Lime
New nonfiction imprint at HarperCollins
New agent at Enliven Endeavors
Why Your Book Isn’t Enough (and Why That’s Good News)
Good Intentions Aren’t Enough in Publishing Deals: How Creators Can Protect Themselves
How a Memoir Became Netflix’s Boots
New Christian imprint at Penguin Random House
Garlic press: Hellmann’s spreads its flavor into Armentrout’s new release
Bookshop launches ebooks in the UK
New UK children’s imprint: Tangle & Twig
New UK subscription box service for debut literary fiction
How Do Freelancers Survive Today? An Interview with a 20-Year Veteran
Extraordinary Books launches in the US
New DK imprint: Paper Sailor
Australian publisher launches children’s imprint
New nonfiction publisher: Titchwell Press
New book review publication: Oakland Review of Books