In Publishing News this week,
I’m a day late this week in publishing the blog. As I was putting it together, I heard that Stephen Colbert’s show is being axed. Many in the media are dismayed with the defunding of public journalism PBS and NPR this week. The Colbert show axing coming on the heels of an out of court legal settlement by the parent company CBS with Trump has alarm bells ringing. Kathleen Schmidt looks at these recent news events and how book publicity will be impacted.
Publishers Weekly is still shining a light on the Diamond Bankruptcy and the fall out for over 100 publishers. Distribution is being picked up by Simon and Schuster at present but with no settlement happening soon Graphic Novel publishers caught up in this mess face a very uncertain future.
Meanwhile over in Europe, Manga is the hot new acquisition. Publishing Perspectives reports that Harper Collins is buying up French and German Manga with its acquisition of Crunchyroll. Manga is responsible for over 50% of sales in the young adult market in these countries.
Translators are annoyed with the launch of Globescribe, an AI translation company reports The Guardian. At issue is the warning that AI cannot translate nuance which a human translator can do.
TechCrunch reports that Google has made their NotebookLM app more of a destination with by adding a public facing collection of notebooks. I had heard of writers using NotebookLM to have a place to put all their research, but on investigation I discovered it does so much more. After watching the video- I understand why authors are uploading their manuscripts and using all the features for research and marketing ideas.
Lisa Norman has an interesting article on Generative Engine Optimisation. How are readers finding your books. With the rise of AI assistants how will they find you’re your book? Kathleen Schmidt also has an insightful article on how Google and AI is changing search. The search world is rapidly changing. Reading these two articles will help you understand how to work with the new search changes and get your book seen.
Joanna Penn has an interesting interview with Ines Johnson on crafting stories and marketing. Ines has a screen writing background and she talks about planning, episodic writing and marketing incrementally.
Chad Grayson has an article on establishing a regular writing routine. My regular routine of non-fiction article reading and writing is a Thursday. This has helped me produce this weekly blog consistently for over 17 years. Chad has some good tips to help with the routine.
Katie Weiland has a big article on the Writing Glossary. This is a collection of articles she has written on different topics such as flat arcs or story structure. This is a bookmark reference guide!
In The Craft Section
Making the most of Writing resources- Gabriela Pereira- Bookmark
Four levels of book editing- Bookbaby
Taking criticism- James Scott Bell- Bookmark
Avoiding Purple Prose- Becca Puglisi
Writing across cultures-Dave King- Bookmark
In The Marketing Section,
How to get more book reviews- Joanna Penn interviewing Joe Walters Podcast – Bookmark
Why every author needs a brand- Sandra Beckwith- Bookmark
Smart ideas for promoting- Penny Sansevieri
Ten Shortcuts- Rachel Thompson- Bookmark
The best author swag- Elizabeth Cole- Bookmark
To Finish
R J Reddon has an interesting post on Writers in the Storm about all those little extra details that you find out in the course of writing your story. Do you ever do anything with them? I never thought about it until I read their article Don’t Delete That. Combining these ideas and NotebookLM (which is included free in your Google account.) and my brain was riffing on all things spacy. Is the world ready for all the weird stuff in my brain? With AI technology taking off like a rocket, the explosion of content across all our media channels is only just beginning. The trick will be to find out who you can trust to deliver quality information.
Maureen
@craicer
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