This week! Books! No posts next week as I’m headed to NYC for a round of lunching with publishing professionals and meeting up with friends. I aim to be back blogging later on in June, but I’ll be checking emails in the meantime, so continue to reach out for editing. In my update on the […]
This Week in Books
The key to creative breakthroughs (This week in books)
This week! Books! Last week I brought you news of Sudowrite’s new service that will help you write a (seemingly) terrible draft thanks to AI, and in a very 2023 news story, a fictional sex act created by the Omegaverse fandom has resulted in the the AI service being caught plundering material. Yes really. Penguin […]
PEN and PRH sue a Florida school district over book banning (This week in books)
This week! Books! Big news this week as PEN America, Penguin Random House, and a group of authors have filed suit against the Escambia County School District for violating the equal protection clause in the Constitution by targeting disproportionately nonwhite and LGBTQ authors with book bans. This is a significant legal salvo in the midst […]
How to make a bestseller in the late social media era (This week in books)
This week! Books! There were two breakout bestsellers in publishing this week that are sure to make fantastic case studies in Harvard Business Review. Here’s how to make a book a bestseller in the 2020s: You too can make your book a bestseller by following these very easy steps! Oh, and it may also help […]
WGA goes on strike (This week in books)
This week! Books! Writers Guild of America, representing screen and TV writers, initiated a strike this week for the first time since a 2007 shutdown that lasted 100 days. Despite the boom of streaming service content, inflation-adjusted median pay has declined 23%, and writers also have their eye on competition from artificial intelligence. Writers of […]
Can writers feature a protagonist from a different race? (This week in books)
This week! Books! Bestselling author Richard North Patterson tackled race in his newest novel and while he claims he received positive feedback from agents, editors, and even the head of a publishing house, no one picked it up, which he attributes to his decision to include two Black protagonists. He writes passionately against a publishing […]
