Posted on July 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of advice to offer, spanning a variety of topics.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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News podcast: Dan Holloway shares his thoughts on the past week's big literary news items — Kobo's rejection of AI submissions, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize's AI research, and a survey of AI in publishing (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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Why your book launch doesn't have to be perfect: Penny Sansevieri reminds authors, again, that launch day is just one of many opportunities for authors to celebrate their book, and thus they should take the pressure off themselves to have huge performance from that single moment (Author Marketing Experts).
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Why we need heroic fiction: K.M. Weiland unpacks why she found herself deeply appreciating a heroic TV show right now and shares six approaches that writers can take to tell their own deeply heroic tales (Helping Writers Become Authors).
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Taking your book ideas to the next level: Greer Macallister describes how she eventually came to see her individual ideas as part of one whole and invites other authors to share their processes for actually using the ideas they accumulate (Writer Unboxed).
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How open mics will sharpen your writing: Karim Shamsi-Basha lists the lessons he's taken from doing stand-up comedy that apply to fiction (Writer's Digest).
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