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Cancel Culture Dominates Children’s LiteratureFrom The Wall Street Journal: In 2016 Scholastic canceled the children’s book “A Birthday Cake for George Washington” two weeks after...
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1 in 4 Books Sold in France Are ComicsFrom Book Riot: While we primarily focus on stateside bookish news, we thought some recent news on France’s reading habits was pretty...
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We fall out of bedWe fall out of bed and into our rags, still crusted with the grime of yesterday. Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill
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The First Rule of Write ClubFrom Writer Unboxed: Fight Club , the book and the movie, comes at you like a right hook. In my experience, you love it or you hate it. But...
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So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?From Vox: When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal, the editors at a Big Five publishing house loved the idea. The...
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Musk bought Twitter for $44 billionMusk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022 and changed the name from “Twitter” to “X” in July. In the past year, 60% of Americans who are...
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Great Last Lines in BooksI got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been...
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Social Media Best Practices for Authors in 2024From Writers in the Storm: Most writers have a love-hate relationship with social media. It’s consistently the best way to promote your...
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Many students have still not regained pandemic-era losses in reading, mathFrom ABC: Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during the COVID-19...
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Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa CatherFrom Penguin Random House Canada: I I first heard of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland...
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Burned Out on the Business of Writing? 6 Insights to Rediscover Joy and PassionFrom Helping Writers Become Authors: In the ever-evolving landscape of the writing profession, where deadlines loom large and market trends...
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As Facebook turns 20, politics is out; impersonal video feeds are inFrom The Economist: “I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10pm and it’s a Tuesday night?…Let the hacking begin.”...
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In a crowded marketplaceIn a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. Seth Godin
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Don’t Shave That Yak!From Seth Godin: The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont,...
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The Power of the PromptFrom Writer Unboxed: In 2010, the consensus was that a writer needed to have a blog. As a dutiful rules follower, who at the time wanted...
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Vivendi to divide group and put divisions, including Hachette, on stock marketFrom The Bookseller: Vivendi has announced that it will carve up its group into four separate entities which will be listed on the stock...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at ArtFrom Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to...
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Getting Down to BusinessFrom Medium: The creation of content is a noteworthy use of AI in book writing. Advanced algorithms for natural language processing enable AI...
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I’ve always believed in writing without a collaboratorI’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the...
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Amazon announces AI shopping assistant called RufusFrom CNBC: Amazon on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence assistant for shopping called Rufus. The tool is designed to help...
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The end of the social networkFrom The Economist: Facebook may be turning 20 on February 4th, but it is just as much of a magnet for controversy and cash today as when it...
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Amazon Turns $2.7 Billion Loss in 2022 to a Profit of $30 Billion in 2023From Publishers Weekly: Cost cuts and a record holiday season, which included a 9% fourth-quarter increase in online sales, turned a $2.7...
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Make It Better for Younger ReadersFrom HypeWriteai.com: Instruction: Please rewrite the following content (to make it better for younger readers): Prompt: Once there...
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdownOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
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Resignations, Censures Follow in Wake of Hugo Awards ControversyFrom Publishers Weekly: Two leaders of Worldcon Intellectual Property (WIP), the nonprofit that holds the service marks of the World Science...
