For Readers
William Shakespeare's birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23, though all we know for certain is that he was baptized on April 26, 1564. But we're confident that he died on a different April 23 — so sharing this book excerpt to...
The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week ending April 16, 2022. 1. The Investigator, by John Sandford. 2. It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover. 3. Where The Crawdads...
Vintage UK's eco-themed series of re-releases doesn't come out until July, long past Earth Day in the US. But seeing as today is Earth Day, it seemed reasonable to share the images now rather than waiting until the summer. Literary Hub has al...
Award-winning actress Viola Davis has several more reasons to celebrate today. First, her memoir, Finding Me, was announced as Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick — and as a result, it spent some time as one of Amazon's top five bests...
For Authors
This week's roundup of publishing news from the Alliance of Independent Authors is heavy on the legislative items, with a decent dose of technology added in. ALLi's Dan Holloway summarizes and clarifies what Europe's pending Digital Marke...
Jane Friedman hasn't flip-flopped on her previous opinion that author newsletters can be valuable marketing and branding tools. She's simply suggesting that, after seeing many lackluster examples, authors who don't have the right str...
We all learned about antonyms, homonyms, and synonyms back in our school days. But perhaps less familiar, at least by its formal name, is the contronym. Writer's Digest Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer recently learned the term — which descr...
People might say not to judge a book by its cover, but in reality, that's the very first way most of us do judge a book. So it's critical to ensure the front design and title make the best impression they possibly can to potential readers. Pe...
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