Pay close attention to any surprising details or patterns in your memoir’s scenes—they often point to the story that really wants to be told.

Tim Ferriss believes authors and publishers will need to leverage and focus on experiences rather than information in order to thrive.

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Rebecca Lommers has joined as a junior agent. She’s currently accepting YA and adult fiction and middle-grade across multiple genres.

A rotating group of writers and editors at the New Yorker will suggest the best books available now and coming soon.

A recent Authors Guild study on book-buying and book-reading behavior lacks a historical baseline for comparison and overstates library borrowing’s role in declining author incomes.

Authors with at least 100 paid subscribers can opt in, and Substack can automatically insert the ad into a newsletter when it’s sent out.

The imprint previously ran from the 1970s through the early 1990s and is associated with the magazine by the same name.

If you’re writing for an audience of one, not thousands, creating a picture book for the child in your life is a goal within reach.

With other essential elements in place, short story writers can consider leaving an ending ambiguous, with room for the reader to ruminate.

Discomfort with “unlikeable” female characters may reflect readers’ own biases and have little or nothing to do with the quality of the writing.

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The business book publisher is launching the Works in Progress series, a series of handbooks for people in the early stage of their careers.

It will publish board and picture books “built for play” for readers ages newborn to 10.

The partnership with a game company will release a series of works set in the world of the popular party game Blood on the Clocktower.

The large US Christian publisher has announced Seed & Sparrow, an imprint for picture books and board books for ages newborn to eight.

Vignette has been founded by UK author and broadcaster Liz Fraser, specializing in travel writing, short stories, and memoir.

Jenny Lewis has joined Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents; she was previously at Norton.

Michael Joosten has joined as an agent in Bright’s US office, building a list of author-illustrator talent in the children’s market.

The journalism graduate decided “hard news” didn’t contain nearly enough magic and kissing, so she flung herself into the land of fiction.

For continued discoverability, websites and Amazon product pages must be optimized to describe books in a way conducive to AI’s understanding.

The PW reports on the data-driven publisher, raising readers, from SEO to GEO, reading is social, and the book-to-screen pipeline.

Fiction sales were up 8 percent, children’s titles up 7 percent, and nonfiction declined 3 percent.

The fastest-growing genres were humor, general fiction, and children’s/YA.

When working with a small press or hybrid publisher, it’s crucial to understand the difference between mere availability and true distribution.