The hashtag #OwnVoices has been used for years to indicate a book written by an author from an underrepresented group

The American Booksellers Association recently held their annual meeting and offered the latest stats on membership.

Indigo reported that net revenue was down 5.5 percent for its fiscal year ending on April 3, 2021. Its online sales more than doubled

The UK’s largest retailer of used books, World of Books Group, has partnered with other used booksellers to launch AuthorSHARE.

TikTok has evolved into an entertainment and educational hub, with a remarkably engaged community of book buyers.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. What matters is expressing an idea in ways that are unique to the artist and specific to the time and culture.

To create the alchemical magic of emotion in your fiction, you need to approach the challenge from more than one angle.

It’s impossible to fire on all cylinders all the time, so dedicate some of your writing time to stoke the flames of creativity.

The most useful work is that which tests our limits and forces us to write something we didn’t realize we were capable of producing.

Your community might be all too willing to help promote your book. The hard part is overcoming the fear of asking.

If you write knowing how the story will end, you’ll deprive readers of the tension that comes from putting obstacles in your characters’ way.

Simon Element will be part of the Atria division and publish 30 to 40 titles every year.

Closing image: The European and International Booksellers Federation recently released an overview of the bookselling market in 2020. While the US

Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt says Bookshop is dangerous for independent bookstores. It’s not much of a surprise he

Booktopia has purchased Brio Books, a publisher of mainstream fiction and nonfiction as well as self-published titles.

Booktopia has purchased Brio Books, a publisher of mainstream fiction and nonfiction as well as self-published titles.

Most recently, Ferguson was an editor at JIMMY Patterson Books.

Kima Jones is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, a literary publicity agency that’s well-known for its success in bringing attention to underrepresented authors.

Catherine Cho was previously with Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. She now runs Paper Literary.

Harper Celebrate will publish celebratory, seasonal, and lifestyle books, with first titles expected in fall 2022.

Beginning this fall, evangelical publisher Tyndale House is launching Refresh with six to eight titles per year.

One of the fastest growing independent publishers in the US, Mango has partnered with Woo! Jr. to launch DragonFruit.

Legendary Comics YA will be part of the larger Legendary Entertainment business, founded in 2000 as a film production and financing company.

Roxane Gay Books will accept fiction and nonfiction and also take unagented work—until it becomes too overwhelming, Gay admitted in an interview with The New York Times

W by Wattpad Books will publish new adult fiction, all based on stories that originated on the Wattpad platform. Wattpad started publishing YA novels in 2019.