Tag: Amazon
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TikTok Readers Stealing from Authors, Amazon’s Shady E-Book Return Policy, and more…
Finally, a Novel That Gets the Internet Right (Wired) The Novelist takes place over a single morning, following an unnamed writer as he faffs around on social media while his girlfriend sleeps in their apartment; he occasionally fiddles with novels in progress in Google Docs. That’s it. The first 16 pages describe the protagonist looking at Twitter in…
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Kindle Vella, LGBTQ Publishing, Janelle Monae’s Debut Fiction…
An evening with Kindle Vella: First impressions of Amazon’s new attempt to reimagine reading (GeekWire) The serialized story is a mainstay of the literary world, a tried-and-true formula for creating a tantalizing tale, from opening hook to closing cliffhanger. But it’s the rare author who can keep readers engrossed in a narrative when the unparalleled…
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Black Indie SFF Writers, Amazon Sued for Ebook Price-fixing…
The rise of apocalyptic novels (BBC) It might seem masochistic to turn just now to tales of havoc and wrenching loss, yet these cautionary narratives also offer catharsis, a degree of hope, sometimes humour. In times of intense worry and rampant uncertainty, they almost seem to hold out the promise of a how-to manual –…
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Graphic Novel Tackles Homelessness, Amazon to Offer E-Books to Libraries, and more…
Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needs (New Statesman) But Bookshop.org’s arrival has caused great unease in parts of the book trade. After a difficult year for the industry, with many small presses and independent shops at risk of closure due to the pressures of the pandemic, many told me Bookshop.org is…
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Major Publishing Merger, NaNoWriMo, and more!
Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties (The Guardian) Foster was approached by George Lucas to write a novelisation of Star Wars: A New Hope, which was published at the end of 1976, shortly before the film was released. Foster alleges that when Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, it bought the rights…
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A Literary Contest that Excludes Men, the Success of Indie Booksellers, and more…
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens (Wired) A native of India, the 58-year-old Chandra supported himself as a graduate student studying creative writing in the United States by working as a programmer. He is as comfortable with code as he is with prose, and his startup, Granthika, is a geekily sublime merger…
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Writers Respond to Trump’s Election…
“Irish readers are like no others in the world”: How these homegrown publishers are making waves (The Journal) “Irish writing has become very sexy,” says Wright. “It’s the flavour du jour in British publishing and advances are being thrown all over the place and Irish writers are carrying off glittering prizes. There are lots of…
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Zadie Smith on the Importance of Dance to Writers, The Golden Age of Sci-Fi…
WritingCareer.com Helps Sci-fi/Fantasy Writers Find Speculative Fiction Markets (Press Release Rocket) Because speculative fiction is a popular genre that writers search for at WritingCareer.com, founder and Editor-in-chief Brian Scott decided to compile and continually update the new section with 15 markets that need story submissions right now. Each market listing specifies: current needs of the…
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Latinx Heroines, Spanish Graphic Novels, and Nigerian Millennials…
5 Things I Learned About Publishing an #OwnVoices Book with a Latinx Herione (Bustle) As a Latinx author and journalist who has been privileged enough to be born in the United States, get an education, and grow up in a safe suburban neighborhood, I feel as though it is my responsibility to put Latinx characters in…
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