Archives

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 [...]

Guardian Q&A with Rachel Abbott and Adam Croft on how they achieved success as self-published authors – on everything from marketing, series vs stand alone books and more. Not a new article: [...]

So many platforms for serial publishing! Most of which seem to be devoted pretty much to romance and fantasy. Neither of which I write. *Business idea! A publishing platform dedicated to noir, [...]

…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 [...]

So many amazing nuggets for creatives in Episode 99 of the Scriptnotes podcast, in which Craig Mazin and John August have a conversation with screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist and best-selling [...]

I have spent the last week or so trying to understand how email marketing campaigns – also known as newsletters – work. Sales and marketing experts say that the humble newsletter is [...]

I’m reading a great book right now called Publishing 101, by Jane Friedman. She is a columnist with Publishers Weekly and writes a very useful blog at JaneFriedman.com. She’s been in [...]

I’m going to be speaking to Sisters in Crime in April about book marketing, and my journey through the dizzying world of how to place and sell your book. So let’s start with the basic question: [...]

Rising rent is one of the biggest reasons that bookstores lose their leases. I feel very conflicted about this. On the one hand, I love books and bookstores, and I hate the idea that as business [...]

50 Cent filed for bankruptcy today in Hartford Connecticut. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to have to go back to slinging crack to make ends meet. That’s because Curtis Jackson (his real name) [...]