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UC Berkeley Students Occupy Anthropology Library, Hoping to Save It From ClosureFrom Book Riot: A group of University of California at Berkeley (UCB) students are entering the second full week of occupying the school’s...
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Workers at B&N Flagship Store in NYC Launch Union DriveFrom Publisher’s Weekly: Workers at the Barnes & Noble’s flagship store in New York City’s Union Square are hoping to join...
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Amazon Publishing StatisticsFrom WordsRated: Amazon was initially founded as a bookselling platform in 1995. Since then, the company has gone through massive changes,...
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Boost Your Book Launch by Perfecting Distribution and MetadataFrom Jane Friedman: The major self-publishing platforms have made the publishing process easy—perhaps too easy. We’ve been conditioned by our...
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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers?Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that’s what – that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom...
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Reddit, Tell Me Where I Went WrongFrom Electric Lit: My neighbor (32F) is not speaking to me (44M) because I made some repairs to her home while she was out of town. These...
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Process for Fantasy World BuildingFrom dyiMFA: Let us begin with the very basic question: “What is world building?” If you are going to write fiction, every story needs a...
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How To Become An Audiobook Narrator: 5 Vital SkillsFrom The Write Life: Becoming an audiobook narrator can open an array of opportunities and take you places you haven’t considered possible....
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Context and subtext in dialogue: Creating layered speechFrom Now Novel: Context and subtext in dialogue helps us read place, emotion, motivation and more in speech. Use this guide to context and...
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The Book Business Needs to Be a Better LGBTQ AllyFrom Publisher’s Weekly: As a publisher and a parent of a queer-identifying child, I was thrilled and honored when Drag Story Hour...
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Even if it’s a lieEven if it’s a lie, it’s a place of my own. That’s why I’m going to keep it. It doesn’t need to be a big lie—just...
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Readers in the West are embracing Japan’s bold women authorsFrom The Economist: Murata sayaka has long kept company with imaginary friends. She first conjured them up as a child, while enduring...
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Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in MayFrom The Verge: Full-time Twitter CEO and part-time Tesla enthusiast Elon Musk said on Saturday that users of his social media platform will...
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Outlines, AI and Stormy DanielsFrom Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris: I’d been planning to write my April post about outlines. Which authors do outlines?...
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FatherlandFrom The Wall Street Journal: When he was 28, Burkhard Bilger learned a jarring family secret: Shortly after World War II, his grandfather...
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Poem about the Loss of Love by CopymaticIn the quiet of the night, The pain of loss seeps in. Memories of what once was, Now twisted with chagrin. The laughter, the love, All now...
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Notable & Quotable: EconFrom The Wall Street Journal: I have a go-to discussion strategy, for when I teach undergraduate political economy. It is a way of...
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The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovationsThe reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model...
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Every successful social movement in this country’s historyEvery successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was...
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Beyond blackFromThe Bookseller: This past week has seen the good and bad of the book trade writ large. The good was manifest in The London Book Fair, a...
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Woke Roald Dahl Will Put Kids to SleepFrom The Wall Street Journal: My late father-in-law detested vague or imprecise language. “Don’t tell me you saw a person,” went his typical...
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Setting Research: When You Didn’t Write What You KnowFrom Women Writers, Women’s Books: A woman floats peacefully in a swimming pool at night, a spangled view of the city behind her....
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Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisationFrom The Economist: F ears of artificial intelligence ( ai ) have haunted humanity since the very beginning of the computer age....
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ChatGPT Will See You Now: Doctors Using AI to Answer Patient QuestionsFrom The Wall Street Journal: Behind every physician’s medical advice is a wealth of knowledge, but soon, patients across the country might...
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This life is what you make itThis life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you...
