For the week ending June 17, Circana BookScan’s top 10 bestseller list was comprised entirely of adult fiction, with six romance titles.

After shutting down in December, book review outlet Bookforum will relaunch this summer under the umbrella of the Nation magazine.

Last month, we noted that HarperCollins and KKR (a private equity firm) are among the bidders for Simon & Schuster.

Lately spam books on Amazon and included in Kindle Unlimited have been visibly infiltrating category bestseller lists.

The inevitable has occurred: There’s a lawsuit against OpenAI’s ChatGPT that seeks class action status on behalf of authors.

Owning and protecting your publishing source files is one of the most important things a writer can do to protect their writing asset.

Readers don’t want to start a memoir already knowing the ending, but it’s important that your pitch specifically defines your story’s scope.

The average visitor spends on average 54 seconds on a webpage. Here are some tips to help turn visitors into readers, buyers, or subscribers.

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Allison Moore has started as an acquisition editor at 8th Note Press, launched recently by ByteDance (owner of TikTok).

Jennifer Weis founded the eponymous agency after departing Ross Yoon. (Ross Yoon was recently acquired by William Morris Endeavor.)

Katherine Flynn, formerly managing partner at Kneerim & Williams, and Zoë Pagnamenta will head up Calligraph.

Liv Constantine is the pen name of sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine, who have sold more than a million copies worldwide.

Good relationship building—both with your publisher and your readers—is key to a successful launch.

Publishers love to see authors provide data that offers marketing insights they would otherwise not have.

For the week ending June 10, Circana BookScan reports that print unit sales are down 3 percent compared to 2022.

One of them said she was resigning because she had lost confidence in board leadership.

Some Ukrainian readers were alleging the novel romanticizes Russia, even though they had not read the book.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the two current frontrunners to buy Simon & Schuster are HarperCollins and private-equity firm KKR.

Storytel will develop AI voices tailored to Storytel’s market and offer its customers a new feature called VoiceSwitcher.

Used well, deep third can be one of the most intimate, engaging, revealing ways for readers to viscerally share your character’s world.

If you sit down to write and find that you can’t, the typical reason is that you don’t know what job the chapter is supposed to do.

Stories with a real sense of meaning don’t merely stand out in the slush pile—they’re the types of stories that make for a better world.

The process of finishing a book is a victory in itself. But it might be your “practice” book, and the world is waiting for what you write next.

Engaging with generative AI in a way that enriches human creativity, you can take your writing further than you might have on your own.