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Festivals are great ways for authors to broaden their reach and build their readerships. Here are a few tips for authors looking to snag a place on panels or seminars at festivals or other book [...]

I’ve been on this self-publishing journey for a while. But now it’s getting real. I’m starting to think about an actual publishing date, probably right around the beginning of [...]

1. They’re basically your book’s first date outfit Let’s be real – people absolutely judge books by their covers. You’ve got maybe three seconds to catch [...]

… that I mostly agree with. From Balaji Srinivasan (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend [...]

I received an assignment recently: to write a story about how much Presidents in the past have increased their net worth whilst in office. I started out by using good old Google to see if I could [...]

There’s no way to get around this basic fact: writers today can’t just be artists; we also have to be salespeople. Back in the day, the dream scenario used to be that one wrote a [...]

What’s the secret to selling in person? It’s really quite simple: engagement. Remember, every point of contact is a point of sale. You might not sell a book with every point of [...]

Kind of like a traveler’s check? Where the bearer signs on receipt? And I wonder, did the bank president and the chief cashier sign every note? Or were they printed on? This note looks a [...]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which prohibits financial institutions from discriminating based on sex, age and marital status, among other things. The act [...]

…for a while there, at least. From the Wall Street Journal (paywall): Mick Herron was dumped by his publisher. Then he became the world’s best spy novelist—slowly. I have been a fan [...]