Microsoft has launched 8080 Books, an imprint for “original research, ideas, and insights at the intersection of science, technology, and business.”

Authors of each year’s list at the Brooklyn-based publisher will acquire the titles to be published by the press in the following year.

Georgia Bodnar has launched Noyan Literary; she was formerly at UTA and Viking. The agency will represent both fiction and nonfiction writers.

Hachette launched two new imprints: Basic Venture, for business and economics titles, and Basic Liberty, for conservative titles.

Catch You Later is Strawser’s seventh novel and received a starred review from ALA’s Booklist.

The lawsuit raises questions about the author-agent relationship and book packaging.

Trump’s first term led to increased printing costs; a second term could bring cuts to arts funding and more litigation surrounding books in schools and libraries.

Circana BookScan predicts a strong holiday season that may leave the industry with better sales than it enjoyed in 2023.

Publishing industry vet Mike Shatzkin passed away on November 7.

National Book Network has about 150 clients, and all have been given a chance to move to Simon & Schuster’s distribution services.

Bowker, the US agency that sells ISBN numbers, reported that the number of self-published titles with ISBNs increased in 2023 over 2022.

Perhaps in response to Spotify, Amazon Music subscribers in the US, UK, and Canada can listen to one full audiobook per month.

Sourcebooks just announced a partnership with author Jeffrey Mason for world rights and audio rights.

HarperCollins has struck a deal with Microsoft to provide some of their nonfiction backlist for training for an as yet unidentified AI model.

An Author’s Note can be the most direct way to communicate your book’s themes to editors, marketers, librarians, teachers, and readers.

Like love and creativity, the best things in life are intangible. It’s the same with intuition, which the tarot helps us access and develop.

Book proposals come together much more easily when the author has confidence and clarity on their target audience.

One author discovers that when it comes to heavily-researched historical fiction, one’s ducks should be in a row before tackling NaNoWriMo.

We do not live without a persistent undercurrent of questions, both tiny and tremendous. Doubt is part of us, so let us make peace with it.

Academics or experts writing for a broader audience than peers should consider framing complex facts through a personal lens.

Trends LitRPG goes mainstream. Some self-published LitRPG titles have been sold to traditional imprints, like Orbit. Read Vivian Nguyen at Publishers Weekly.

The line launches with Green’s own book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, to be published on March 18.

Smashing is a new free app meant to help people who are “drowning” in content and need help navigating the media

Reintgen let past successes inform his craft and focused on accessible prose, fast-paced storytelling, big stakes, and cool worldbuilding.

And whether there’s risk of AI training on your material.