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Baker & Taylor Publisher Services purchased by Lakeside

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Lakeside, a book manufacturer which spun out of RR Donnelly five years ago, already serves 250 small publishers who handle their own sales.
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Edit Your Book As If It’s a Screenplay

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A writer’s script-editing experience helped fix her novel’s problems with pacing, flat characters, and scenes that didn’t propel the story.
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Crafting Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Crime Fiction

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In crime fiction, the most powerful moments often aren’t about car chases or shootouts—they’re about impossible choices.
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Links of Interest: November 19, 2025

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The latest in scams, trends, AI, and a piece everyone's talking about.
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New agency: Keystone Literary Agency

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Lindsay Guzzardo has launched Keystone Literary Agency, which represents a broad range of fiction and nonfiction for adults.
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New UK freelancer marketplace: BookBindr

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The site offers a database enabling users to search for and contact freelancers for editing, publicity, design, marketing, and more.
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Book sales update: romantasy in the UK

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In 2024, UK’s Nielsen reports that the science fiction and fantasy category secured its biggest year since they began keeping records.
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Attention authors published by Amazon Publishing

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This is a PSA for any Amazon Publishing authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list.
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Sourcebooks says it’s one of the Big Five based on unit sales

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That would put Big Five publisher Macmillan in sixth place in terms of sales volume, but not dollars.
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Spotify rolls out new audiobook feature: Recaps

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Recaps are short audio summaries that help listeners return to an audiobook they’ve already started, without needing to rewind or re-listen.
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Can AI generate a meaningful book marketing plan?

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Can an AI-generated marketing report help save you time and brainpower for more creative writing pursuits? Yes and no, with some urgent caveats.
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Using the Workplace to Add Depth to Your Novel

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Using the workplace as more than a backdrop can supercharge the stakes, conflict, and character development of your fiction.
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How a 100 Rejections Challenge Prepared Me for Life’s Biggest Rejection

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A slew of literary rejections helped one writer develop the perseverance needed when a failed marriage left her urgently seeking a new job.
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What I Got Wrong About Memoir and What I Now Understand About the Genre

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An author reconsiders her biases, finding the best memoir writing to be courageous, complex, and capable of transforming others and ourselves.
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Links of Interest: Nov. 12, 2025

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The latest in bookselling, audio, trends, AI, and culture & politics.
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New agency: The Alicia Brooks Literary Agency

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Brooks was previously at Jean V. Naggar Agency. She seeks a wide range of fiction and nonfiction and is currently open to submissions.
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Are you seeing paperback sales bottom out at IngramSpark?

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A children’s author noticed that in October her paperback sales dropped precipitously through IngramSpark without any clear reason.
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AI firm wins copyright lawsuit in the UK

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Getty Image’s lawsuit against Stable AI, for scraping millions of images to train its software, has failed in a narrow ruling.
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Amazon offers free AI translation service to indie authors, raising copyright questions

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The Authors Guild confirmed that an AI translation is not copyright protected under current US law.
If you encounter ClaimsHero, I suggest you ignore them

If you encounter ClaimsHero, I suggest you ignore them

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The Arizona law firm has no connection to the Anthropic case, but is trying to skim off authors in the class who may be unhappy about the current settlement.
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How Self-Published Authors Sell through TikTok Shop

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TikTok Shop can lead to meaningful book sales for authors, but success demands fast fulfillment, engaging content, and often affiliate partnerships.
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How Revising My Novel While Querying Helped Me Win a Book Award

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When agents suggest further revision, we might need time and distance to see our MS through their eyes—but doing the work can pay dividends.
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What Makes Character Voice Memorable: Emotion

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This excerpt from a new craft book by Jordan Rosenfeld explores the many ways our fictional characters manifest their internal emotions.
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Before You Say Yes: What Writers Need to Know About Anthology Offers

Learn how to find and assess anthology opportunities, which offer short fiction authors income and visibility by sharing audiences across contributors.
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Links of Interest: Nov. 5, 2025

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The latest in audio, the creator economy, and AI.