An elaborately structured plot, without clearly-defined character goals and motivations, is like mapping a trip and calling it a vacation.

A successful nonfiction book proposal addresses market demand and cements the writer’s authority throughout the entire document.

The big dogs will remain the big dogs. Mega advances will still be paid, and it will remain challenging to make a living if you’re the average author (as it has been throughout history if you depend on book sales alone).

Shifting from memoir to fiction allows painful memories to be expressed, while sharing the hard-won wisdom we’ve gained through experience.

Subtext, the real conversation hidden by surface talk, can deepen the story with unpredictable outcomes and emotion.

Traditional Publishing The ongoing conglomeration of publishing will not lead to the destruction of literature. So argues a professor of

UK-based Quarto Publishing is launching a new gift book imprint in 2023 called Kaddo.

4U2B Books & Media is a new imprint that will publish children’s books as well as select titles for adults.

Trustbridge, which owns Candlewick Press and others, is starting to develop kids’ and family programming based on its library of titles.

UK-based Titan Comics is establishing a new manga imprint, Titan Manga.

Austin-based startup Literati offers subscription book boxes and online book clubs primarily in the children’s market.

Podcast network Lemonada Media and Penguin Random House have partnered to launch the Lemonada Book Club podcast.

UK publisher Angry Robot Books is launching Datura Books, a crime fiction imprint.

NPD analyst Kristen McLean provided context for the allegation that half of the trade titles published each year sell fewer than a dozen copies.

Big publishers can leverage smaller marketing spend to greater effect than smaller publishers.

While the IBPA doesn’t currently vet member publishers, authors are encouraged to reach out with questions.

Through August 2022, print book sales are down by 5 percent versus 2021, which is considered very good performance.

Overall, PRH sales increased by more than 6% but profits were down by 1.8% due to cost challenges related to supply chain and inflation.

According to NPD BookScan, which tracks print retail sales in the US, Colleen Hoover has sold 7.3 million print books this year.

It takes grit to seek and implement qualified feedback, and to keep finding ways to improve a manuscript even after you’ve given it your all.

The Toronto-based novelist discusses his journey from self- to traditional publishing, marketing, the art and business of writing, and more.

If you’d like to see your work in national publications—and get paid—tailor your essay to smoothly fit their voice and mission.

A half-hour’s writing might yield only 500, 300, even a mere 100 words. But a half-hour’s writing over 7 or 8 months: a book’s worth of words.

Anticipation—“Will it happen or won’t it?”—keeps readers on edge, and we can make use of their need to know by building scenes that cater to it.

Even though Barnes & Noble is having a tough time with new titles in hardcover, the format was selling well overall in 2021 for the children’s market.