Category: News (Page 1 of 22)

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Why Filippo Bernardini, known as the “Spine Collector”, stole over a thousand manuscripts.
• How to make use of paid advertising for your books.
• How to ensure that your content is accessible to everyone.
• Make sure your book signing events are successful.
• You’ve heard of writer’s block, but do you have publishing block?
• Draft2Digital’s print option is now open to everyone.
• Four myths about writing and publishing non-fiction.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• It’s bad enough if your book gets pirated. But Amazon deciding that you’ve broken their exclusivity rules is just rubbing salt in the wound.
• The Alliance of Independent Authors has everything you need to know about editing.
• Artificial intelligence is here. Draft2Digital asks if it will replace human authors.
• Penguin Random House are restructuring, but is it meaningful or just musical chairs?
• How to compile short stories, poetry, etc into a collection.
• If you’ve ever wondered what an author assistant does, check out this upcoming Q&A.
• How to make the most of every win.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• The Alliance of Independent Authors is conducting an indie author income survey to try and get a better picture of how much indie authors earn.
• Victoria Strauss on red flags to watch for in a publishing contract.
• The antagonist isn’t always the villain.
• Hootsuite is discontinuing its free plan.
• How to improve your physical health and your writing health.
• If you’ve written a self-help or how-to book, here’s how you can sell more copies.
• How to grow a wide, global audience of readers.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Andrew Knighton discusses several different beginnings he considered for his most recent novella, and why he rejected them.
• Apple has been using audio from indie authors’ audiobooks to train its AI, even though the authors may not have been able to licence those rights. Note the update – they’ve agreed to stop.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch: it’s harsh, but some authors decide to fail.
• Roald Dahl’s books have been edited to make them more suitable for a 21st-century audience.
• How to use TikTok for book marketing.
• Roald Dahl’s books have been edited to make them more suitable for a 21st-century audience.
• How to add a “Share with Mastodon” button to your website.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Mastodon has got a lot of press in recent months. Our new article has everything you need to know about it.
• The HarperCollins strike has ended. It lasted sixty-six days.
• How to get the most out of a small marketing budget.
• Have you considered ghostwriting as another source of income?
• How to choose a book marketing service.
• Jane Friedman wishes all authors were skilled at negotiation.
• Romance authors lead the way in book marketing. The rest of us can learn from them.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Kobo is accepting submissions for its ninth annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.
• Have you tried engaging with readers via live streaming?
• Draft2Digital can now distribute your ebooks to Palace Marketplace, which will get them into over 400 libraries and library systems across the US.
• Mike Shatzkin says the future is dim for traditional publishers, but bright for readers.
• The UK government looks set to abandon plans to extend a copyright exception for training AI.
• Bookshop.org is to get a “look inside” type feature.
• How to respectfully write diverse characters.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• How to use social media as an author.
• Make sure you aren’t accidentally gaslighting the characters in your romance novel.
• 2023 will be a year of change for book publishers.
• Would a “book map” help with your non-fiction book?
• How to become an “auto-buy” author.
• Why are you putting off writing?
• Hemingway is a very useful editing tool. And it’s free!
• Amazon has updated its systems to refuse returns for ebooks that have been read.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• A useful guide to writing a novel by the seat of your pants (ie without a plan or outline of events)
• If you’re writing a fantasy novel, these tips should be helpful.
• Kindle Unlimited paid out half a billion dollars last year. Those numbers aren’t included in most reports.
• Is this sentence structure really the worst in the world?
• How to make an author website that really does what you need.
• MailerLite have been looking into the best days and times to send marketing emails.
• How to market your book as an introvert.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• So you’ve taken the advice to create a newsletter. Now, what do you do with it?
• Lessons authors can learn from the TV programme Shark Tank (Dragon’s Den in the UK).
• A preview of tools that Draft2Digital will be implementing from Smashwords.
• Copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against DeviantArt, Stability AI, and Midjourney.
• A rare glimpse into the life of a ghostwriter.
• If you’ve got multiple books, there are lots of ways to bundle them.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• A romance author faked her own death.
• How to rebuild a writing habit.
• Why the “disabled villain” trope is problematic.
• When people tell you that readers have lost interest in ebooks, remember that library patrons borrowed 130 million ebooks from Overdrive in 2022.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Kickstarter, selling direct, and fan patronage of authors.

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