Judy Blume has gotten her COVID vaccine!

Posted on 01/12/2021 at 08:25 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine hasn’t been without its snags and delays, but we’re happy to report one successful...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Women in literature, Young adult literature

How authors can plan -- with flexibility -- for 2021

Posted on 01/07/2021 at 02:48 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Orna Ross is taking a different approach to her New Year’s post for the Alliance of Independent Authors. Rather than...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors), coronavirus / COVID-19, Motivational

Kris Rusch on how audio has changed -- and could keep changing

Posted on 01/07/2021 at 09:25 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s year-in-review series has arrived at the topic of audiobooks. In an oddly refreshing departure from other posts...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Audiobook, coronavirus / COVID-19, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Penny Sansevieri: A pandemic is no time to slack on book marketing

Posted on 12/10/2020 at 09:11 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You know what COVID-19 has generally meant for your author career — an emphasis on online connection (versus in-person ones)...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Marketing, Penny Sansevieri

The Guardian's most influential words of 2020

Posted on 12/05/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Guardian's David Shariatmadari has taken the Oxford English Dictionary approach to choosing a word of the year. Rather than...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Language, The Guardian

Dictionary.com also chooses "pandemic" as its word of the year

Posted on 12/01/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s perhaps fitting that in a year where many days feel the same, Dictionary.com chose the same word of the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Language

Are you ready for the biggest book tour in history?

Posted on 11/30/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The biggest book tour in history is set to take off tomorrow, believe it or not. If you believed us,...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Literary Hub

No surprise: "Pandemic" is Merriam-Webster's 2020 word of the year

Posted on 11/30/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Merriam-Webster’s selection of a word of the year for 2020 is the least shocking thing that has happened all year....

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Language

Pope Francis wrote a book during his COVID-19 lockdown

Posted on 11/24/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We now know what Pope Francis’s pandemic project was: writing a book. Let Us Dream was ghostwritten by Austen Ivereigh...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Nonfiction

Infographic: How the world read in 2020

Posted on 11/16/2020 at 09:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A new infographic just might answer all the questions you had about other people’s reading habits. Global English Editing took...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading