Not only must nonfiction books offer solutions, they must also share the promise being made—the emotional outcome the reader will achieve.

It’s easy to become nihilistic and pessimistic when thinking about the arts and AI. To recover your optimism, return to the simple idea of play.

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The University of Florida Press is launching Warrington Press in partnership with the university’s college of business.

A panel at this week’s US Book Show offered insightful perspectives from a BookTok influencer and a publisher’s director of digital marketing.

More than 600 brick-and-mortar, pop-up, and mobile bookstores were added in 2025, many of them reflecting the growth of romance and romantasy.

This debate has been going on for years, and libraries have limited leverage, but new state bills have started to push the envelope.

Everand (formerly Scribd) subscribers will get access to Fable at the $11.99 level, syncing activity from Everand to Fable.

When a traditionally-published author made the switch to self-publishing, she found that success reveals itself in months, not days.

When building a character, roles can be efficient shorthand—hard-boiled detective, dutiful nurse—but the best characterizations require going deeper.

Potential readers can step inside your book’s world via brief, text-based, choose-your-own-adventure-style stories made with online tools.

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The agency will support producers and screenwriters who want to turn film and TV projects into novels early in their development.

Lawson’s new book shares tools and tricks she relies on when her brain isn’t working properly due to depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

Publishing professionals have a responsibility to learn about AI—not to use it, but to effectively deal with its consequences in their work.

They include AI-narration for self-publishers, personalized AI-generated daily podcasts, human-narrated longform journalism, and more.

The combination of AI narration and YouTube advertising has created a new, profitable form of infringement.

If your story requires characters whose motivations don’t come naturally to you, here are some tips to help you imagine the impossible.

A good story, like a good hiking path, simply unfolds without seeming forced. Here's a tool that helps keep complex stories on track.

The Authors Guild wants to hear from authors excluded from the Bartz v Anthropic settlement due to a publisher's failure to register for copyright.

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The publishing imprint will focus on debut literary fiction by emerging writers with strong ties to Texas.

The fellowship is intended to support writers whose projects engage with the collections of the NYPL flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

Ava Grayson is actively building her list in literary fiction, horror, romantasy, gothic, YA, romance, fantasy, and narrative nonfiction.

I spoke with three self-publishing novelists who have distinctive business models and different levels of involvement with Amazon and Audible about the new AYCL royalty model.