Jane Friedman

What Defines Acceptable AI Use for Writers?

Nearly half of authors now use AI in their creative process—including writing, r...

Don’t Ruin the Mystery: How to Reflect in Memoir Withou...

What draws readers into your story is the mystery of how you achieved your trans...

Sensitivity Reading in Speculative Fiction: Why It Matt...

No matter what story we read, we bring ourselves with it. That’s why sensitivity...

POV Bright Spots and Blind Spots

Every narrative point of view has something it does well and something it doesn’...

Links of Interest: May 14, 2025

The latest in traditional publishing, audiobooks, AI, and newsletters.

Not dead yet! HarperVia launches small-format paperback...

Despite the decline of mass-market paperbacks, HarperVia is launching a line of ...

New publisher: Putman Publishing

Doug Putman, owner of music retailer HMV UK, is launching a publishing company. ...

New agent: Howland Literary

Ashlee MacCallum has joined as a junior agent at Howland Literary. Previously sh...

Audible opens the door wide to AI audiobooks

Audible will offer AI production technology to select publishers, first for narr...

US Copyright Office says outputs of AI models could lea...

The latest report says that certain uses of AI models may affect the market for ...

Library of Congress becomes political battleground

After President Trump fired the Librarian of Congress and head of the US Copyrig...

Authors Guild files class-action lawsuit against the Na...

In early April, the NEH terminated grants already approved and in-progress in or...

8th Note Press Doesn’t Make Good Use of the TikTok Plat...

The press launched by ByteDance hasn’t yet had a national bestseller or viral hi...

The Hidden Costs of AI Copyediting Tools: An Editor’s R...

AI copyediting tools are a mixed bag, performing some mechanical tasks well but ...

It’s a Book, Not a Slide Deck: Avoiding Fast-Content Ha...

Bulleted lists and unbridled text formatting might work online, but overuse in a...

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