Submitting work shouldn’t be an act of desperation, and not every publishing deal aligns with your goals for your book—your “why”.

Marketing strategically for 30–60 minutes per day can ensure your time, money, and energy go toward activities that move the needle.

Finished a first draft and unsure where to go next? Here’s a 5-point checklist of what the second draft revision process should accomplish.

It’s still possible to write on social media to communicate our ideas, our topics, and our point of view to people who become our audience.

With a regular five-minute meditation you’ll become a master of focus, able to dismiss distractions before they even fully form as thoughts.

The latest in traditional publishing, audiobooks, bookselling, the creator economy, libraries, and culture & politics.

Spotify users in Canada can now purchase audiobooks through the service.

PubSpot gathers all the educational content that IBPA has produced—articles, webinars, podcasts—and puts it in one spot.

Transit Children’s Editions, an offshoot of Transit Books, will feature noteworthy picture books from around the world.

Two authors seemingly on similar publishing trajectories experienced very different outcomes, and started a podcast to examine why.

The new imprint, AUWA Books, will feature an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction.

K Manga is a new app launching in May that will include 400 titles and early access to new chapters from Kodansha’s most popular series.

A senior editor has announced a new initiative which will send advance reading copies of the books he’s publishing to “everyday people.”

The second book in the Zoe Washington series was recognized as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

Standout subcategories include domestic thrillers, organized crime, paranormal mysteries (featuring shifters), and legal thrillers.

A key question to be answered, not all that simple: What constitutes human creation?

Sales data from the AAP shows a slight sales increase, with gains in the adult market and declines in the children’s/YA market.

The man who stole pre-publication manuscripts for his personal reading pleasure for several years was sentenced to time served.

As widely expected, the Internet Archive has lost its case against publishers regarding its operation of the Open Library.

The Biden administration suggests it will ban TikTok if not sold to a US-based company, but China has indicated it will oppose a forced sale.

The recently published LISTEN, WORLD! is a page turning biography of Elsie Robinson, the most read woman journalist of the twentieth century.

Upmarket fiction is a blend of commercial and literary fiction, but how it gets blended is where writers and industry members can’t always agree.

When we lean into stigmatized topics, we invite readers to wrestle with the same complexities we’re examining in ourselves.

Writers of both genres have to make decisions that somehow mold real people and events into a story with a shape, an arc, and meaning.

Even lesser-known authors can experience legal issues if they don’t perform their due diligence while writing and revising their books.