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Goodreads is Broken

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The Publishing Confidential 2023 Gift Guide

How to Train Your Brain Like a Book Publicist

What Simon & Schuster's New Board Means for Book Publishing

Bonus Edition: The Holidays, Loss, and Grief

Bestseller Lists are Broken

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The Anatomy of a Bestseller

Book Publishing Must Break Up with Twitter

Book Publicity: What to Expect in 2024

Do on-sale dates matter? Yes...and No.

Author Platforms in 2024: What to Expect

Whose Voices Get to be Heard in Publishing?

Do Trade Reviews Still Matter?

Guide to Hiring Freelance Publicists

Your Book Is Not for Everyone (and that's okay)

A Guide to Book Launches

Rethinking Book Proposals

Author Websites: What you need to know.

A Quick Programming Note: Going Paid (Sort of)

What can help books sell?

September is Suicide Awareness Month

We Need to Talk About Blurbs.

Book Publicity, Part 2: What Works & What Doesn't

Book Publicity: What Works and What Doesn't

Publishing is a Business

What Book Publishing Can Learn from Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Confess, Fletch

Book Publishing is Broken

Book Publishing + Social Media + Streaming

Marketing Books in 2023 (Goodreads included)

The Book Publicity Landscape in 2023

Eat, Pray, Delete.

Buster Oliver Schmidt, The Best Dog Ever

What do you want to know about book publishing?

Author Advances + P&Ls

Book Preorders + Volatile Social Media

NPR and PBS Quit Twitter: What does it mean for publishing?

What You Need to Know About Hiring a Publicist

Book Publishing + Politics

What You Need to Know About Book Publicity

BookTok and the Publishing Economy

AI, The End of the English Major, and Book Publishing's Ageism Problem