Posted on December 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
There's nothing like a fresh calendar to inspire advice-giving (and receiving).
Here's what the publishing experts we follow have released in the past few days, to mark the change from 2025 into 2026.
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The best of Helping Writers Become Authors in 2025: K.M. Weiland celebrates her accomplishments, previews what she hopes to do (and share) in 2026, and lists the most popular posts on her blog (Helping Writers Become Authors).
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The literary news in 2025: Dan Holloway's year-end recap is divided into two segments; the first focuses on trends in artificial intelligence, while the second covers romantasy, audiobooks, and Bookshop.org (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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Review of my 2025 goals: Joanna Penn takes an honest look at how close she came — or didn't come — to what she hoped to accomplish this year (The Creative Penn).
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Watch for these 2026 social media trends: Lacy Phillips, digital and social media coordinator for P.S. Literary Agency, makes her predictions in this guest post (Jane Friedman).
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