Paying for Exposure on Social Media: What Not to Do
There’s no magic shortcut for marketing books, and anyone who tells you otherwise is definitely selling something.
Teach Your Book: Designing a Class Around Your Memoir
By teaching one’s own work, a writer discovers not only what they do well, but how others might use such insights to unlock their own drafts.
New translation imprint: Avocado House
Yen Press is launching a new imprint, Avocado House, dedicated to fiction and nonfiction in translation, about 12 titles per year.
Beventi adds ticket ordering for bookstores
The new feature enables readers to purchase event tickets and pre-order books in a single transaction.
The Bifurcation of Rights: What’s Old Is New Again
How self-publishing authors strategically split print, audio, and ebook rights across multiple publishers—and what bifurcated dealmaking means for author control and income.
Readers respond
Responses to stories about plagiarism checks in the media, steering AI toward a happy future, and school visits for children’s authors.
US book sales update: first quarter 2026
Compared to the first three months of 2025, print book sales this year are down by 3.1 percent, according to Circana BookScan.
Copyright law professor files blistering objection in Anthropic case
The objection argues that the settlement, while fair in amount, would funnel most of the money away from authors and toward publishers.
Another AI animation partnership for HarperCollins
HarperCollins-owned Harlequin announced a partnership with Dashverse to produce animated microdramas inspired by their romance titles.
Editors and publishers using AI for manuscript summaries
Based on conversations at London Book Fair, some editors are using AI to generate summaries of manuscripts—which raises numerous questions.
What Three-Star Reviews Really Mean for Authors
Readers who give three stars are often responding to the intersection between their expectations and the book—not the book’s inherent worth.
The Memoir Playbook I Wish More Writers Knew
Three practices separate successful memoirists from those who underestimate the writing craft.
Why ADHD Writers’ Brains Are Like Lions (and How to Harness Their Power)
By learning to embrace the nonlinear nature of the ADHD brain, you can learn to write with more ease and less frustration.
New publisher: One Book Publishing
What started as a way to publish Alexei Navalny’s memoir is now branching out into other publications for Russian speakers worldwide.
New series of translated novels
New World Editions is introducing a series of translated novels by authors from one country for every letter of the alphabet.
New translation prize from a literary agency
The David Bellos Translation Prize, championing global literary voices, will be awarded to translations of fiction into English.
New children’s imprint: Curiosity Unlocked Books
The new imprint from educational publisher Teacher Created Materials will publish fiction and nonfiction for young readers up to age 12.
TokyoPop launches new imprint for young readers
Manga publisher TokyoPop has launched TokyoPop Learning, focusing on books and learning materials for young readers ages 10 and up.
New agent at P.S. Literary Agency
Gemma Paynter, formerly a product manager at Harlequin, has joined P.S. Literary Agency as associate literary agent.
AI enters the New York Times book review section
After being alerted by a reader, the Times severed its relationship with the reviewer, Alex Preston, and added a notice to the review.
New York Times adds two new bestseller lists and removes one
Added to their audio lists: Children’s, and Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous. They will stop publishing a mass market bestseller list.
Harlequin partners with AI company on shortform video
Authors were not consulted and likely don’t have much say over the matter, but they will receive royalties from the videos.
On the List: Beatrix and the Unicorn by Lita Judge
While Judge had plenty of success with the 30 books prior to Beatrix and the Unicorn, this was her first bestseller.
