Author Earnings & Careers

ACX has also introduced more lenient terms and will let authors out of exclusivity agreements.

On Twitter, author Despina Karras announced #PitchDis, a Twitter pitch event for disabled writers, coming in June 2021

Many established authors started receiving emails from Blurbbist, a new platform that manages, and enables payment for, book blurbs.

It’s called The Audacious Book Club, which is part of a new overall endeavor called The Audacity, debuting on January 11, with new writing from Gay

Authors demand increased transparency for audiobook returns and additional changes to Audible’s return policy.

The Writers Guild of America East is now organizing within the scripted podcast space (mostly fiction podcasts).

Medium’s ever-shifting business model and policies make it a risky platform for authors seeking to build a reliable following or monetize content

Initially, the law capped a freelancer’s contributions to the same publication at 35 pieces; beyond that, they’d be considered an employee.

Ingram is seeing publishers use fewer offset print runs, more digital short runs, and POD as the backup for everything. 

Abacus, a royalty tracker, can now accept sales reports from IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Kobo, Google, and Apple Books.

On Saturday night, author LL McKinney called on white authors to reveal their book advances on Twitter using the hashtag #PublishingPaidMe.

These declines are primarily due to a loss of speaking engagements and freelance journalism assignments.

Coronavirus update includes global efforts continuing to mitigate—or reverse—losses and hardships during pandemic.

The most blatant threat to fiscal stability for self-publishing authors has so far come from Barnes & Noble via ebook distributors.

Yesterday, the ebook distributor Draft2Digital sent a notice to all of its authors that, due to delays from Barnes &

Even though agents and editors may be attempting to conduct business as usual, the coronavirus undoubtedly affects acquisitions.

Publicists and industry advocates offer tips for adjusting your approach to book marketing and promotion Until this spring, the crisis

Although nonfiction author Scott Carney is citing figures not readily available in royalty statements, his experiment is worth watching.

Dave Chesson offers a three-step plan for optimizing Amazon rankingChesson explained keywords and keyword phrases are not some magical thing.

As part of its annual release of its financials, Amazon announced that it paid over $300 million to self-publishing authors

A book is often the product of teamwork. The ability to revise—to accept feedback and apply it with diligence and insight—is essential to success.

In this Q&A, literary agents Jim McCarthy and Paula Munier discuss the priorities and responsibilities—to yourself and to others—of being a working writer.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect at the first of the year and is meant to protect California residents.

Bree Bridges, the co-author of a romance series, took to Twitter to remark upon the common phenomenon.

ChiZine offers a case study in how to address—and prevent—problems with your publisher.