Whether you write novels or nonfiction, a press release is still an essential tool for raising awareness and sharing your work’s core message.

Memoirists owe it to readers to tell them the truth. But what do you do when the truth isn’t black and white?

Even with the best promotion, there’s no guarantee your book event will fill the seats. Here are some tips for making the best of it.

Comics pros Jim Krueger and Steve Orlando have launched a science fiction and fantasy publisher, Gungnir.

The former publisher of HarperCollins Ireland, Conor Nagle, has launched an eponymous literary agency based in Dublin. Nagle will be

Based in the US, tech company Veristage has launched Insight, an AI publishing assistant for publishers.

Sally M. Kim has joined Andrea Brown as an associate agent. She was previously children’s marketing director at Chronicle.

The latest in TikTok, traditional publishing, hybrid publishing, legal concerns, Amazon, AI, the UK, and culture & politics.

Laura Thalassa is the author of over 20 paranormal and fantasy romance novels, two of which have been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award.

Sudowrite’s James Yu addresses concerns and best use cases.

The demise of The Writer magazine reflects deeply rooted media industry woes—such as fragile ad revenue—and long-term challenges for both journalists and authors.

Publishers Weekly crunched the numbers on their 2023 hardcover lists and found that the Big Five held about 85% of bestseller slots overall.

Early reports are filtering in on Spotify’s new audiobook listening program that offers 15 free hours for paid subscribers.

Now that voting and nomination data has been shared, questions have been raised as to why some authors were not nominated for the awards.

Audible quietly started allowing AI-narrated audiobooks to enter its storefront late last fall, long after other retailers had done the same.

If you have an active membership at Publishers Marketplace, you can now use AI to help fuel your search for the right agent for your next book.

The Texas book rating law has been deemed unconstitutional in an unanimous verdict by a three-judge panel in federal appeals court.

Not all AI models are trained exactly the same, and a new nonprofit now offers paid certification for models that meet specific requirements.

Writer’s block is an excuse, based on fear, that gives us permission to quit as soon as writing gets hard.

If your older book is no longer performing well on Amazon, updating the description, metadata, or cover can show them that you mean business.

Twists feel “twisty” because the author has carefully engineered the story to mislead readers via the protagonist’s journey and assumptions.

Ghostwriters, whose literary contributions have often been made in secret, are creating more community and visibility for their work.

If you’d love to go on a writing retreat but worry about whether the investment will “pay off,” here are five ways to reap rewards.

While you can’t publish a book without sitting down to write, there are many times when we can gain insight by looking away from our work.

That still beats the performance of 2020 and is way ahead of pre-pandemic 2019.