All the things publishing neglected to mention…
The complete collection: what is happening in publishing now, what went wrong behind the scenes, and what thirty years of doing the work taught us to try next.
Publishing Now…
General news from the publishing world.
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Amazon Quietly Stopped Paying Some KDP Authors on 1 August. Here’s Why.
Read the Article: Amazon Quietly Stopped Paying Some KDP Authors on 1 August. Here’s Why.Some KDP authors have had royalty payments placed on hold—and lost the ability to publish—after Amazon’s 1 August payment-provider deadline. Here’s what changed and…
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International Booker Prize Doubles Prize Purse to £100,000
Read the Article: International Booker Prize Doubles Prize Purse to £100,000The Booker Prize Foundation announced a major financial expansion for the International Booker Prize, doubling its total prize purse from £50,000 to £100,000. Supported…
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Major Publishers and Authors File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google Over AI Training
Read the Article: Major Publishers and Authors File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google Over AI TrainingA coalition of major publishers—including Hachette Book Group, Cengage, and Elsevier—alongside prominent authors such as Scott Turow, have filed a proposed class-action copyright infringement…
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Why Crime and Thrillers Still Dominate the UK Book Market
Read the Article: Why Crime and Thrillers Still Dominate the UK Book MarketThe UK’s obsession with Crime & Thrillers is neither a fleeting social media trend nor a passing fad; it is the dominant engine of…
The Bit Nobody Warns You About…
Practical investigations, awkward exceptions and lessons earned in real production.
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Do You Need to Outline a Novel? One Author’s Thirty-Year Answer
Read the Article: Do You Need to Outline a Novel? One Author’s Thirty-Year AnswerDo you need to outline a novel before writing it? A veteran author explains discovery writing, working out of order and building a story through character.