After 12 years with Idea Architects, Lara Love Hardin is launching True Literary Agency.

Harlequin’s flagship romance imprint HQN is relaunching as Canary Street Press, named for Toronto’s Canary District.

Andrea DeWerd, who formerly worked as a marketing director at HarperCollins, is launching The Future of Agency, a book marketing and consulting company.

Freedom Fire is a new middle-grade imprint that will feature stories written by Black creators about Black resilience and Black joy.

Tyndale Elevate will focus on apologetics: arguments and justifications for Christian beliefs.

To break into the rich romance market, look for a subgenre with high sales and lower competition.

Current alternatives can’t replace Twitter, but uncertainty and chaos seem likely to plague those who remain.

A judge ruled that Penguin Random House cannot acquire Simon & Schuster, opening the door to similar government cases that can prove harm to workers rather than consumers.

According to NPD BookScan, the holiday season this year is taking a less prosperous path than 2021 in the US book market.

Ingram has launched Ingram iD, an ad platform for book publishers to reach consumers.

In our last issue, you might recall our write-up of Yonder, a new serialized literature app from the Wattpad–Webtoon family.

While books can be assigned up to 10 categories, Amazon has now disallowed books from ranking in more than three categories.

The writers who get their books into the world are those who find a middle ground between refining their work and endlessly tinkering.

Switching POVs within the same scene should only be tackled by experienced fiction writers, and only when it reveals something important.

Science says these three techniques can draw your readers in, keep them engaged, and provide them with a compelling experience.

If your agent or publisher wants to pitch your book to Hollywood, they need to know the rules—or at least, the rules of the day.

You can mine the first paragraphs of well-written novels for four critical components that keep readers hooked.

What makes a good writer? Relentless internal drive, a thick skin for editorial feedback, and reading voraciously across many genres.

Traditional Publishing HarperCollins lays off around a dozen people. In a statement, the publisher said, “The business is facing continued

Textbook publisher McGraw Hill is hoping to appeal to the TikTok generation with its new learning app, Sharpen.

The Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock, New York, is launching Golden Notebook Press.

Hamish McKenzie, one of the founders of Substack, has launched a podcast, Active Voice, “about how great writers reckon with the internet.”

Andrea Fleck-Nisbet will become IBPA’s new CEO effective November 1, 2022.

Carol Woien and Leslie Truex have joined as junior agents.

Little, Brown Ink will be a graphic novel imprint at Hachette publishing about 20 titles a year, both fiction and nonfiction.