What do you do when a teen in your life is a diehard writer? When they won’t clean their room and just want to write stories or poems all day?

Working hard isn’t necessarily a virtue if it masks the ways that we might be sabotaging our own paths to success and fulfillment.

The latest in traditional publishing, the WGA strike, AI, book promotion, book banning, and culture & politics.

Lifestyle publication N Magazine, focused on Nantucket Island, has launched a new podcast: Books, Beach & Beyond.

Ten Speed Graphic will publish literary adaptations, global webcomics, biography, memoir, history, how-to, fiction, and licensed entertainment titles.

Paw Prints Readers will publish works exploring diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Previously an editor in academia, Kelly Bergh has joined Lucinda Literary as an agent.

Andrew James, former editorial director at Jessica Kingsley Publishers, has founded Frog Literary Agency, dedicated to LGBTQIA+ creators.

Editors look for stories most compellingly told on audio; quicker time to market can play a role, too.

CEO James Daunt discusses the necessarily slow journey to improve, store by store, after the chain was run by “numpties.”

Psst. It’s word of mouth. (Still.)

Circana BookScan reports that print unit sales for LBGTQ fiction grew 11 percent between June 2022 and May 2023 versus the previous year.

Wattpad announced that its creators program, which has been limited in scale, will be open to more writers and offer equal benefits to all.

The ABA says it added 173 members last year and increased bookstore businesses by 9 percent to a grand total of 2,185.

Back in May, the literary agency New Leaf abruptly dropped dozens of clients when one of its agents was dismissed from the firm.

Apparently, Scribe’s assets are in the process of being sold off, although a buyer has not yet been determined.

Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch has dug into this disconcerting development to identify how and why this happened.

The model contract—available to all, not just members—has four new clauses related to AI.

The changes are expected to reduce abuse by authors who have been adding their book to inappropriate categories for visibility and ranking.

According to the Association of American Publishers, overall consumer book sales declined 6.6 percent in 2022.

A little planning and reflection will help your website be a project you sustain, rather than discard like a half-baked draft.

No matter what language our characters are speaking, writers should strive to express dialogue and inner thoughts in a naturalistic way.

With these four elements you’ll be able to create a more compelling protagonist and, as a result, a more interesting story.

An amateur historian finds that her passion has led to enough expertise and authority for her book proposal to be taken seriously.

Here are some tips on what to do before approaching a published writer with questions about how to get your book published.