One Piece of Advice from Each of 50 Mystery and Thriller Authors in 2023
Seven Ways to market and publicize your forthcoming book to create buzz
“Every Main Character Needs a Sidekick” by Sandra Murphy, guesting with mystery writer Debra H. Goldstein, the author of Kensington Press’s Sarah Blair mystery series. Sandra’s sidekick, Ozzie the Westie Impersonator, with a tug toy (hot dogs) on his head. He’s a critic, a problem solver, and always good for a laugh.
A new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models by Melissa Heikkiläarchive October 23, 2023
What’s the Future of Books?
Amid historic disruption in the publishing industry, big questions are—rightfully—being asked. Here, experts weigh in on how books (and the ways we discover them) are going to change by Kate Dwyer November 9, 2023 Esquire magazine
5 Tips to Keep Your Readers Happy & Wanting More
Posted by Brian Andrews on Career Authors | Nov 1, 2023
Penguin Random House, authors sue to block Iowa Anti-LGBTQ Book Banning Law
Fifth Circuit hears appeal of Texas Book Rating Law
Lambda Legal, ACLU sue to block Iowa Anti-LGBTQ Book Banning Law
Congress introduces bill to fight book bans in schools
Florida’s Maxwell Alejandro Frost and Frederica Wilson and Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced the bill on December 5. The Fight Book Bans Act would offer school districts funding to defend against challenges to books and educational materials that’s resulted in thousands of titles being removed from school libraries.
AAP calls Big Tech’s AI arguments ‘Nonsense’
The Association of American Publishers insists copyright law protects authors, publishers, and creators from unauthorized appropriation of works by AI developers to train their systems without compensating authors or receiving permission.
Can’t find a few minutes a day to promote? Sandra Beckwith asks authors how they do it. Here are the 8 tips they shared.If you’re self-taught on the computer and there are keys that remain a mystery, this article might help. Finally! A Definitive List of What Those F1 – F12 Keys Do
Another way to share books. Most readers have a towering TBR (to be read) stack of books, some of us in every room, on every surface. Sadly, we can’t keep them all.
Here’s a way to share and send books directly to troops, veterans, and families. Media mail helps keep the postage cost down. Operation Paperback has been around since 1999, has 19,000+ volunteers from all 50 states, and 15,000 books per month are shipped. A list of recipients is provided, the donor packs and ships (and pays).
Promo Idea No need to duplicate this idea in particular but it should spur creativity so you can find your own unique plan to draw attention to libraries, launch parties, or signings.
The St. Louis Public Library Is Hosting Taylor Swift Con Because Why?
They helpfully note Swift herself will not be in attendance. The Taylor Con starts off with a dance party. Following the dance, fans are asked to create a Taylor-tote, poster, fanzine, or friendship bracelet. Have your photo taken with Taylor (a cardboard cutout version, of course). There’s also a talk titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Taylor Swift Panel and Q&A with Taylor Teachers.” The day ends with Taylor Trivia.
What does this have to do with writing, publishing, selling books? It should spark ideas for getting readers into the library and from there, reading what we write. Approach your library and see what ideas you can generate, what age group you can reach, who will want to know about your books. It might not hurt to have Cardboard Taylor on hand…
