Business and marketing updates for authors: September 21, 2026

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of business and marketing advice and news to offer.

Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:

• A publishing scam gets a rare comeuppance: Victoria Strauss shares one writer's hard-fought legal battle to get his money back from a fraudulent company (Writer Beware). 

• Substack strengthens ties with publishing industry: Dan Holloway sums up what newsletter platform Substack is doing to bring in nonfiction — and fiction — writers (Alliance of Independent Authors). 

• Member Q&A podcast: Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss a number of important business decisions for writers, including when to sell and when to keep foreign translation rights, as well as whether to pay for a Kirkus review (Alliance of Independent Authors).