Discomfort with “unlikeable” female characters may reflect readers’ own biases and have little or nothing to do with the quality of the writing.

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The business book publisher is launching the Works in Progress series, a series of handbooks for people in the early stage of their careers.

It will publish board and picture books “built for play” for readers ages newborn to 10.

The partnership with a game company will release a series of works set in the world of the popular party game Blood on the Clocktower.

The large US Christian publisher has announced Seed & Sparrow, an imprint for picture books and board books for ages newborn to eight.

Vignette has been founded by UK author and broadcaster Liz Fraser, specializing in travel writing, short stories, and memoir.

Jenny Lewis has joined Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents; she was previously at Norton.

Michael Joosten has joined as an agent in Bright’s US office, building a list of author-illustrator talent in the children’s market.

The journalism graduate decided “hard news” didn’t contain nearly enough magic and kissing, so she flung herself into the land of fiction.

For continued discoverability, websites and Amazon product pages must be optimized to describe books in a way conducive to AI’s understanding.

The PW reports on the data-driven publisher, raising readers, from SEO to GEO, reading is social, and the book-to-screen pipeline.

Fiction sales were up 8 percent, children’s titles up 7 percent, and nonfiction declined 3 percent.

The fastest-growing genres were humor, general fiction, and children’s/YA.

When working with a small press or hybrid publisher, it’s crucial to understand the difference between mere availability and true distribution.

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.