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CensorshipCensorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it. Mark Twain
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The Limits of MagicThanks to F. for the tip.
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Book Banning in America Has Never Been WorseFrom Publisher’s Weekly: I’m here today to preach to the choir, but sometimes a guy just needs to vent. In 1973, I was hired by the...
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Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say YesFrom Women Writers, Women’s Books: I got a late start as a writer. I was an avid reader, sure, but write a book? Never crossed my mind...
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Turin is the latest book fair to blur the line between trade and public-facing publishing eventsFrom The New Publishing Standard: The Turin International Book Fair is expected to clock more than 2022’s 169,000 visitors by the time it...
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Should You Leave Your Critique Group Once You’re a Published Author?From Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris: “Leave your critique group” was my editor’s advice after my first full-length novel,...
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Successful negotiationSuccessful negotiation is not about getting to ‘yes’; it’s about mastering ‘no’ and understanding what the path to...
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Book Origins and the Ongoing JourneyFrom Women Writers, Women’s Books: New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation , took a few years to research and write,...
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Cooking, Monasteries, Arithmetic: Lorraine Daston on the History of RulesFrom Public Books: Historian of science Lorraine Daston’s many pathbreaking works include Against Nature and Classical Probability in the...
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What recent publishing controversies say about the industryFrom Nathan Bransford: Controversy erupted in the publishing Twitterverse in a few different directions over the weekend. . . . ....
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More Posts TomorrowPG just helped a family moves a bunch of oak bookshelves out of Casa PG and he’s more than a bit tired. As PG has mentioned, he and...
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An imbalance between rich and poorAn imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plutarch
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Here were these men from the townHere were these men from the town, having eaten and drunk, standing beside him whose children were starving and eating the very earth of the...
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PEN America, Penguin Random House Sue Florida School District Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Book BansFrom Publisher’s Weekly: In response to a troubling wave of book bans, PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a...
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Lessons From The WGA Writers StrikeFrom Kristine Kathryn Rusch: For most of you, the main issue in this year’s Writers Guild of America writers strike is whether or not your...
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10 Novels About the Drama of Working for the Family BusinessFrom Electric Lit: When we think of a family business, what springs to mind first is probably a straightforward, even heteronormative,...
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The Party Is CancelledFrom The New Yorker: Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a...
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Methods for predicting the futureMethods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as “nutty...
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The Future of Writing Is a Lot Like Hip-HopFrom The Atlantic: Creative artificial intelligence provokes a strange mixture of contempt and dread. People say things such as “AI art is...
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2 Supreme Court justices failed to recuse themselves from cases involving their publisher after receiving large amounts in book advances and royaltiesFrom Business Insider: Two Supreme Court justices did not recuse themselves from cases that arose before the court involving their book...
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The Deadly Beauty Regime: Historical Practices of Risky CosmeticsFrom Culture.org: From the mountainous region of Styria, Austria, to the high society salons in Mayfair, London, the quest for beauty has...
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Why Authors Should Ditch Mailchimp and Move to SubstackFrom Jane Friedman: If you’re an author who’s been using Mailchimp to grow your list and improve sales, it might be time to ditch Mailchimp...
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It is a paradoxIt is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never...
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In global rush to regulate AI, Europe set to be trailblazerFrom The Associated Press: The breathtaking development of artificial intelligence has dazzled users by composing music, creating images and...
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The Real Costs Of Writing A BookFrom My Story Doctor: What are the real costs of writing a book? If you’ve been “bitten by the writing bug” then you are exceedingly...
