For Readers
Outside experts have closed the book on their review of How They Rule the World: The 22 Secret Strategies of Global Power. The verdict? While they didn’t believe Pedro Banos expressed anti-Semitism in his book, they did find some passages from...
A 1924 letter from Ernest Hemingway to his father was just sold for over $25,000, but left us very curious about the response it received. Never before published, the letter — auctioned off on June 13 — talks about the recipient’s g...
If you ever shopped at the Microsoft ebook store, it’s time to keep your eye out for your refund. The Digital Reader reports that Microsoft emailed customers on Monday to say that refunds or store credits would arrive in July. Which one you rec...
The Democratic presidential primary debates kick off tonight, with the first of two ten-candidate sets taking the stage at 9 p.m. Eastern in Miami. As it turns out, the vast majority of the twenty-four candidates (not all of them invited to the debat...
For Authors
When you think about how much we rely on word of mouth in general, it should come as no surprise that it’s a powerful driver of book sales, too. That’s why Penny Sansevieri recommends putting your readers — well, a select group...
The place to upend your genre’s tropes is not the cover; readers have come to expect certain imagery and may skip over your book if that's missing. But inside the book? That’s a whole ’nother story (pardon the pun) — when...
Joanna Penn has a new expert interview up, this time with someone who was among the first inductees into the Audible narrator Hall of Fame. So if you have any interest at all in audio, especially narrating or producing them yourself, head over to The...
TV and movie producers have it much easier when it comes to depicting their stories’ settings — do a quick pan, include a few key features of the genre, and move to the action. What they do in a handful of seconds, authors often find them...
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