The Poison Daughter is her fourth novel and her first USA Today bestseller.

US copyright law allows for the prevailing party to recover legal fees, although it’s discretionary and not automatic.

Cost pressures on print have been increasing, but this requirement will prove challenging for novellas, poetry, or works with low page counts.

It will focus on English-language originals with previously unpublished English translations of successful German titles.

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The operation will adapt the company’s IP into books and develop new original stories that might reach the screen.

Skyhorse Publishing, known for publishing conservative voices, is launching an imprint in partnership with Tucker Carlson’s media company.

Together they are launching an imprint called WhoopInk, focused on bringing “fresh, diverse new talent to the marketplace” in all genres.

Abrams Well will publish five to six wellness titles annually with its inaugural releases beginning next year.

Three nonprofit publishers were willing to speak with me about their subscription programs: McSweeney’s, Open Letter, and Archipelago Books.

They write, “We’ve seen a significant increase in automated and low-quality account creation. A modest activation fee can make a real difference.”

The announcement is due to demand from authors—and also increasingly from stores and sales reps who are asking them to take a strong stance.

When memoirists grant compassion to themselves and others, acknowledging everyone’s hopes and struggles, it makes writing easier—and better.

There’s no magic shortcut for marketing books, and anyone who tells you otherwise is definitely selling something.

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.

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Yen Press is launching a new imprint, Avocado House, dedicated to fiction and nonfiction in translation, about 12 titles per year.

The new feature enables readers to purchase event tickets and pre-order books in a single transaction.

How self-publishing authors strategically split print, audio, and ebook rights across multiple publishers—and what bifurcated dealmaking means for author control and income.

Responses to stories about plagiarism checks in the media, steering AI toward a happy future, and school visits for children’s authors.

Compared to the first three months of 2025, print book sales this year are down by 3.1 percent, according to Circana BookScan.

The objection argues that the settlement, while fair in amount, would funnel most of the money away from authors and toward publishers.

HarperCollins-owned Harlequin announced a partnership with Dashverse to produce animated microdramas inspired by their romance titles.

Based on conversations at London Book Fair, some editors are using AI to generate summaries of manuscripts—which raises numerous questions.

Readers who give three stars are often responding to the intersection between their expectations and the book—not the book’s inherent worth.