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With 25 million users, Wattpad is the world’s largest community for readers and writers. Last year, users spent 41 billion minutes on Wattpad, with a new chapter uploaded every second.…

In a legal victory for self-publishing service provider Author Solutions, federal judge Denise Cote has denied class certification in a case that accused the company of fraudulent conduct. In a…

Elizabeth Bluemle — July 6th, 2015 Note: an interesting blog your editor ran across and thought you might like. In the 18-plus years I’ve been a bookseller, the average word…

Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai has launched the #BooksNotBullets social media hashtag. In honor of her 18th birthday, she hopes that world leaders will consider redirecting eight days’…

Kindle’s changes to how they pay authors participating in the Unlimited Program are reviewed. We offer two different viewpoints: Book marketing guru Penny Sansevieri recaps the program and gives her…

Click on any name below to see the full mini-profile on the GLA Blog (with submission instructions). Good luck querying! 1. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock of Liza Dawson Associates She is seeking:…

by Sabrina Ricci It seems that every day I come across a new site or tool that can help with writing, editing, promoting, or pretty much any stage in the…

by Anne Roiphe (from Publishers Weekly) It’s a long story—the one about how I published books, fiction and non-fiction and how I survived the rocks thrown and the debris in…

by Kimberley Grabas With a book launch – much like outrageous stunts or death-defying acts of daring – you really only have one chance to get it right. Other book…