Editor’s Choice June 2023

The contest sounds good but…is it too good to be true? A scam? Or overpriced for the return?

Ingram is dropping all book set-up fees, eliminating charges for revisions in the first 60 days, adding a new premium color option and paper stock option, and imposing a 1% (of list price) “global distribution fee.”

Check to see if your book has been pirated

See what books are being banned

How Authors Can Build Relationships with Independent Bookstores by Jane Friedman

Book Launch Checklist: A Marketing Timeline for Authors

Rules for writing from Elmore Leonard, Neil Gaiman, George Orwell, Margret Atwood, P.D. James, and more.

Need an editor but don’t know what kind?

More banning? Yes, they did. Florida school blocks younger students from reading Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” that was read at President Biden’s inauguration.

Penguin fights back against banning. The world’s biggest publisher is suing a Florida school district for banning books by writers including Toni Morrison and Khaled Hosseini.

United Against Book Banning’s statement
While we come from different walks of life, we all believe in the following principles:

1. Reading is a foundational skill, critical to future learning and to exercising our democratic freedoms.
2. Books are tools for understanding complex issues. Limiting young people’s access to books does not protect them from life’s complex and challenging issues.
3. Individuals should be trusted to make their own decisions about what to read.
4. Parents should not be making decisions for other parents’ children.
5. Young people deserve to see themselves reflected in a library’s books.