May 22, 2025
Authors Guild Sues to Bring Back Grants; Major Newspapers Use AI to Recommend Books that Don’t Exist; Plus Publishing Opportunities, Success Stories, and Editing Jobs This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This…
April 24, 2025
NanoWriMo is Shutting Down; 6 Publishing Opportunities; Subscriber Success Stories This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscriber’s recent success…
March 27, 2025
Tin House is Getting Acquired; US libraries Lose Federal Support; Unauthorized Use of Books for Meta AI training; 3 Calls for Submissions. This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide…
February 27, 2025
Publisher Charges $23 for Contest Entries, Then Cancels Cash Award; New “Human Authored” Certification; NEA Grants Affected by Trump Administration; 3 Publishing Opportunities; Subscriber Success Stories This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication….
January 23, 2025
Author Sues Their Agent & Publisher Over Copyright Infringement; John Klassen on the Art of the Board Book; 7 Publishing Opportunities This is a new monthly feature, that we are trying out. This monthly column will be published on the fourth Thursday of every month. It will be divided into three sections of varying length….
December 26, 2024
Sourcebooks launching audio imprint; Goodreads Choice Awards; and some writing opportunities. This is a new monthly feature, that we are trying out. We will only continue it if it develops a following. This monthly column will be published on the fourth Thursday of every month. It will be divided into three sections of varying length….
November 27, 2024
HarperCollins Sells Rights to Books for AI Training; Amazon KDP to Stop Serial Releases; 4 Submissions Opportunities This is a new monthly feature, that we are trying out. We will only continue it if it develops a following. This monthly column will be published on the fourth Thursday of every month. It will be divided…
October 17, 2024
The Inexplicable Behavior of Skyhorse; Thrush Closing Down; and 3 Noteworthy Opportunities. This is a brand new monthly feature, that we are trying out. We will only continue it if it develops a following. We have sadly had to discontinue our Other Side of the Desk series of interviews, because it never developed a readership….
September 26, 2024
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last seven years, though I am a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Every year now on September 30th, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors…
July 4, 2024
A few months ago we announced that we were moving away from releasing weekly reviews of manuscript publishers. You can learn more about this here. Since then, we have worked out a new publishing schedule. Because we are trying to be as transparent as possible as a company, I’m sharing it below. It also might…
June 13, 2024
I was a reader long before I was a writer. As a child I fell in love with books like The Balloon Tree, A Wrinkle in Time and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That love of books has never left me. When I was a teenager I remember being shocked by the fact that most of…
September 28, 2023
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last six years, though I am a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Every year now on September 30th, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors…
April 6, 2023
Jacob Jans and I got married twelve years ago, and on our first anniversary we talked about how we would never ever work together. About six months later, Jacob needed help launching a Facebook page for Freedom With Writing, which was relatively new at the time. He kept complaining about how he could not get…
March 30, 2023
To be clear, I’m not a tech expert, or a science writer. I am in no way an expert in terms of chatbots and AI. So, if you are hoping to read an article written by an expert in this field, this is not the article for you. I’m writing this article from my perspective,…
January 26, 2023
In April 2023, Authors Publish will turn 10. When I founded Authors Publish way back in 2013, I was still figuring a lot of things out. I was adjuncting at universities and was severely underpaid, but also deeply frustrated with how little resources there were out there for authors who couldn’t pay to attend classes…