Jane Friedman

How AI-Generated Books Could Hurt Self-Publishing Authors

Self-publishing authors may end up as collateral damage in the rising tide of AI...

How to Land an Agent for a Graphic Novel

While artists don’t necessarily need an agent to get into comics, these tips wil...

How to Deal With Rejection: Celebrate!

One author believes that celebrating your rejections is part of how you take you...

Mining Your Memories: 3 Forms of Memory Every Memoirist...

Understanding how your memories work, and what to do with the less reliable ones...

Book Family Tree: A New Way to Think About Your Book

When choosing comp titles, try envisioning your book as an entry on a family tre...

What Character Arc Isn’t

Character arc isn’t created from a patchwork of different issues. It’s one clear...

Decide Where You’re Standing in Time as You Write Your ...

Memoirists must make conscious decisions about time—the time frame of the story ...

Pay Yourself to Write

Today is the day you start building financial habits to acknowledge the inherent...

Building Your Brand on TikTok Isn’t Curation, It’s Auth...

As authors, how do we make social media work for us? Here’s how one history nerd...

Wattpad Authors Who’ve Gone From Page to Screen

Three past winners of Wattpad’s Watty Award discuss their experience of seeing t...

Book sales update: December 20, 2023

Poetry is experiencing its biggest sales year ever in the UK, according to figur...

Amazon Trend Report: Reader Interest Shifts Toward Fant...

Readers seek out dark romance and fantasy romance more than paranormal.

New agent at Aevitas

Donya Dickerson, formerly associate publisher at McGraw-Hill, has become an agen...

The Shake-Up at Penguin Random House

Is it the changing of the guard or the changing of publishing culture—and what d...

Book sales update: December 6, 2023

According to Circana BookScan, print book sales are down 3 percent versus 2022—a...

The Humble Neighborhood Library: Why It Should Be Part ...

Since most readers don’t have an independent bookstore in their neighborhood, pu...

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