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Is eligible for the Nebula with Ife-Iyoku novella

Penprince_

African writers rarely win or are even nominated for the best new writer, debut author, first novel/story awards. Because they usually need a running start to be seen or eventually

Julie C. Dao

jules_writes

Author friends, I say this with the greatest love (and a few years’ experience, now): STOP CHECKING GOODREADS. Full disclosure, I was obsessed with my rating and reviews when FOTL’s

Sarah Mearhoff

sarah_mearhoff

Mitchell, SD got the national media treatment today. I'm not posting the link because the author of the article tweeted condescendingly less than a week ago about locals saying she

Sydney Duncan

SLDuncanBooks

I just read the Whisper Network article by Bleeding Fool. In my opinion, the piece does a pretty good job of putting the author and publisher in legal jeopardy. But

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I'm trying not to have serious opinions about copyright online right now because there are so, so many more important things going onBut I really feel like a lot of

Blessed, Honored Pioqueer!

BlessedPioqueer

Another gay white faithful Mormon man wrote a book about being gay, and it reminded me that in the most well-known volume in this genre (the author is the brother

Joanne Harris

Joannechocolat

Another day, another distant acquaintance, asking me to "just look over" or "comment on" a friend or relative's manuscript. Please, folks, please - don't ask authors to do this. Here's

Malcolm Fle✘

Malcolm_fleX48

Conservativism as we know it today is a movement based on a desire to return to Liberalism.True liberalismConservatism seeks to conserve the authority of govt and move back to the

Claire Allan

ClaireAllan

This week, I was part of a conversation about bookish things. During the chat one participant made a comment about writers putting books out once a year, or more, and

Happy Holl-Zabé-s

ZREllor

Finally got my query inbox down to a manageable size after working at it for three days (70 queries, 7 fulls!)#amagenting Biggest reason for passing? The book premises weren’t unique

Dr Sara Hastings-Simon

S_HastingsSimon

Some thoughts on watching this unfold, cost/benefits/outcomes for those involved and the incentive to lie.National Post publishes piece that is outright wrong.Expert provides skillful takedown and absolutely crushes the story.Post

Diana 📖🌧️

paperbackjedi

There is a larger issue that I've always kept in mind when it comes to promoting books: you will not love every book, but you can still promote them. But

semjaza

semjaza_xx

I see people complain about not enough content for their ships, but when you look in the ao3 tag, half the fics have no comments. I’m just like, how long

Jon Wargo

wargojon

As a junior scholar, I take the peer-review process quite seriously. I read manuscripts deeply (sometimes 3x over), and I work to synthesize my thoughts with what (from my read)

Courtney

CourtneyOR

Sam Sykes really is disingenuous as fuck. We already knew this, but somehow there’s always more. I found this interview from 10yrs ago - right before his debut novel was

David Schraub

schraubd

There's now an "author's note" appended to the @tabletmag hit job on California's Ethnic Studies Curriculum, which fails to address the seemingly core sin that the author falsified key pieces

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