I’m going a little retro today with a Buzzfeed-style header and some hot takes about elements that don’t belong in a query letter. Here’s the thing though, if I’m being fully honest: there are no…

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First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.

The founder of the long-lived Writer's Group WriteOn Joliet tells what makes a healthy Critique group for Writers.

This week! Books! Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly – Unsealed court documents show OpenAI and Microsoft employees…

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training — “Internal Microsoft communications identified the ‘real risk’…

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Raymond Love just wanted to publish his children’s book with a trustworthy self-publishing company. Instead, he found a scam that took his money and delivered nothing of value. For most authors in…

Known for freewheeling fanfic, the self-publishing platform is turning into a content factory

The next month is going to be busy for us here at Kobo, but here's a little something that snuck out in advance: We know some of you have been driven slowly crazy by the way your reading progress on…

It’s an unfortunate fact of modern life that there are many scammers on the internet looking to make money from authors. We were recently contacted by an author that had been contacted by a scammer…

Conference attendees have many questions about AI, and organizers would better serve their audience by engaging with intent and clarity.

This week! Books! Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History (gift link) – Karen Weise and Mike Isaac, New York Times – Microsoft and OpenAI workers were taking…

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links: Book a FREE consultation to find out how we can help you publish your book.

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week.

New research from Oxford University Press explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the research process. We conducted a survey to find out how academic resear

This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays.