Small bits of action—descending the stairs, cleaning off the car—might not be insignificant if they tell something about a character’s world.

The latest in bookselling, trends, and AI.

The winner receives a book deal with Hachette UK with a £30,000 advance and £20,000 towards the marketing of the finished book.

Callen Martin has joined the agency and will represent children’s and YA science fiction and fantasy fiction.

The agency specializes in children’s books and will represent both authors and illustrators. Colvin previously founded Little, Brown Ink.

Many booksellers have told the author they recommend it, then the same reader comes back to buy copies for friends, relatives, and others.

Are they worth the investment, both financial and emotional? Yes—if the contest is legitimate and the prize offers value to the writer.

It’s rumored that a growing number of AI companies are now buying and scanning books to train their models.

Hachette Book Group and Cengage are joining a 2023 lawsuit against Google for using books to train its AI model known as Gemini.

A publicist can be an invaluable part of your launch team when your book is published, but it’s also possible to do it on your own.

One writer explores how women will rationalize away feelings of unease for the sake of pleasing others, and how we express that on the page.

In a break from industry norms, an appeals court ruling that says authors and artists can recapture their rights globally upon reversion.

The latest in traditional publishing, trends, legal issues, audio, AI, and culture & politics.

The podcast is for publishing professionals and meant to “answer all the questions you might have about the industry we all love.”

Marble Press has acquired CamCat Books from B&T; their catalog includes more than 100 adult and YA titles across multiple categories.

Author Justina Ireland has joined as an agent, seeking both adult and children’s fiction. She is currently closed to queries.

Skylight will publish commercial fiction.

Policies that prohibit AI use are easy enough to create, but they are not necessarily easy to enforce.

Like in the US, adult fiction was strong while nonfiction declined and showed its lowest performance since 2018.

According to Circana BookScan, overall print unit sales were up just barely, 0.3 percent, in 2025 versus the prior year.

It’s based on the fiction and nonfiction that’s selling at independent bookstores and includes only small and independent publishers.

There's a twist: the author says sales of his books on Amazon have gone up as a result of the unauthorized YouTube recordings.

To encourage transparency among creators and audience, one writer suggests a simple, two-category system for labeling AI use in works of art.

A memoirist who began writing with the goal of helping others was surprised by how the process healed old wounds and reframed her self-image.

The author’s historical novel, Finding Flora, was an instant number-one bestseller in Canada which led to rerelease of two previous novels.