New tech tools for writers to play with

Posted on June 28, 2023 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Digital Reader shared an interesting website that isn't specific to authors, but that's worth checking out. It's called the...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Marketing / promotion, Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader, The Passive Voice

Spring 2023 reports on the book publishing industry

Posted on June 27, 2023 at 8:40 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Passive Voice blog recently shared two different surveys related to the publishing industry. The headlines link directly to the...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Audiobook, Publishing, The Passive Voice

"Bold women authors" from France and Japan

Posted on May 3, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two of our news sources had posts in praise of some female authors who are't pulling any punches. The Passive...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literature in translation, The New York Times, The Passive Voice, Women in literature

AI news of note, as shared by The Passive Voice

Posted on January 25, 2023 at 8:56 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The articles about artificial intelligence are piling up, especially on The Passive Voice. So here's a roundup of the posts...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The Passive Voice

New Year's Eve isn't much to celebrate, according to these stories

Posted on December 31, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s still time, if you’re looking at this close to the time it was posted, to ring in the new...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: The Passive Voice

AI storytelling for children

Posted on December 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Want to read an AI-generated book to your kids? Want your kids to use AI to write their own stories?...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Amazon, Artificial intelligence (AI), Children's literature, The Passive Voice

All about cozy mysteries

Posted on November 10, 2022 at 11:08 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It may not feel like it where you're living — it certainly hasn't yet in Iowa — but winter is...

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Tagged As: Mystery, The Passive Voice, Writing advice

A primer on arbitration for authors

Posted on October 28, 2022 at 2:49 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Passive Guy (the blogger behind The Passive Voice blog) recently included a quick discussion of arbitration in contracts in a...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The Passive Voice

A novel written in the Uyghur language is now available in English

Posted on September 15, 2022 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Uyghur novel has been translated into English for the first time. Readers in the US and UK can now...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literature in translation, Politics, The Passive Voice

Differing opinions on the future of AI narrators

Posted on April 29, 2022 at 8:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Publishers Weekly reported, in a subscriber-only article, that Google Play has expanded its AI-narrated audiobook creation option to the US,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Audiobook, The Passive Voice