Writers-Are You The Problem?

In Publishing News this week,

Publishers Weekly reports that Catapult publishers is to close at the end of the month. As you read the article you wonder why this is happening, on paper it looks successful. But there are a few paragraphs in the news report that offer a clue according to industry gossip. The staff decided to unionize. What was their billionaire owner to do?

 

On the other side of the publishing desk, two authors unhappy with the way their children’s book on Palestinian history was being edited decided to pull their book from Random House just as it was ready to go to print. Publishers Weekly details the authors concerns.

 

Amazon have announced they are changing the name of Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+. In their press release they are adding audiobooks into the subscription and they promise that audiobook royalties will be by the page. With the heavy competition for audiobook ears, it seems this was a match waiting to happen. 

 

The Authors Guild has written a set of guidelines for publishers around AI best practice in dealing with authors. They hope that it will give authors and publishers a starting point to understand how much and what kind of AI should be acceptable.

 

The Wall Street journal writes about YouTube looking to officially expand into audiobooks. Unofficially, authors have been putting their audiobooks onto YouTube and getting lucrative advertising money. 

 

The next big court case has been filed with 300 authors filing copyright infringement claims against Meta. What is interesting is that this is not a class action. That’s 300 individual claims. This is just the first group reported on. Lawyers interviewed by Publishers Weekly indicate that another 2000 are in the pipeline and they are asking $150,000 per claim.

Over in Korea, Mark Williams reports on the Korean Publishers Society launching an appeal to their government to pursue compensation from Anthropic for illegally copying their authors work. Other countries are preparing their own cases.

 

Publishing Perspectives reports that due to the dire state of reading and closing of bookshops Poland’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage is debating whether to make fixed price book laws. The rest of Europe is waiting to see whether it is a good idea.

 

Over the years I have linked to articles that explain IP (Intellectual Property) and why keeping control of it is a good idea. Publishers Weekly reports on two ex Amazon Executives who also think IP is a good idea and they have formed a company to help authors exploit their own IP in book packaging deals. 

 

Ines Johnson has a great essay on how to create your own author mastermind group. 

It doesn’t need to be in person but the idea of looking over another writer’s shoulder to get motivated and learn can be beneficial to everyone in the group.

 

Claire Taylor has an interesting essay on calendaring. What happens when calendaring your life isn’t working? Are you stuck in the constantly planning phase and not getting any further forward in your creative project? Claire explains that your ego might be the problem.

 

Mark Leslie Lefebvre has a thoughtful essay on pre rejection. This is the essay for you if you are feeling imposter syndrome. Mark writes about wearing two hats, one hat is well known in the industry and gets all the attention which he wishes the other hat would get.

 

Jenny Hansen writes this week on the difference between Fear and Fine. Each word is an acronym for a state of mind that can halt the writer in their tracks. A must read.

 

Kris Rusch has an interesting essay on Craft and the writer. Have you stopped learning?

She is a big advocate of the writer constantly learning about craft. You may think that you know all the basics but are you writing the same story over and over again?  

 

In The Craft Section,

Grammar errors you may be making- Rachel Thompson- Bookmark

Using Character Tropes effectively- Angerla Ackerman- Bookmark

Author blind spots- Jenn Windrow- Bookmark

When is it ok to quit a story- Becca Puglisi- Bookmark

The many ways to bookend a novel- CS Laking- Bookmark

 

In The Marketing Section,

November holiday Book Promotion ideas- Sandra Beckwith- Bookmark

Are low content books dead- Dale Evans

Should writers pay to have their book edited- Jill Boehme

Interview with Spoken founder Phil Marshall-Indie Author- Interesting

Why Writers need multiple practical marketing strategies- Rachel Thompson- Bookmark

 

To Finish

It’s nearly Novel November and you’ve obsessively planned out your story. (See last weeks post for links) Got all the craft books you need and are ready to go…and stop. You have run out of momentum before you even start the project. Or you may have had a project rejected that has been one rejection too many. Natalie Hart has the essay for you. The Big List of Momentum Recovery Activities. You need to reframe the feelings that you have to go forward.

Among the quotes Natalie shared, this one got me thinking about new beginnings. 

The phoenix must burn to emerge- Janet Fitch.

 

Maureen

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The Care and Feeding of Readers

 

 

In Publishing News this week…

 

The big news across all the social media outlets was the unsealing of the previously redacted comments in the Open AI Microsoft court case. The admission that executives knew they were using pirated work among other comments from executives make chilling reading. Publisher’s Weekly reports on the news story. (Insert your own comments about what weasels those execs are here.)

 

Amazon are limiting publication of titles. In an in-house press release on KDP they announced the move restricting author to two titles per format per week. This will be welcome news to authors battling against an AI scam book onslaught. However, those authors who publish wide in different formats might find they need to stagger their launch times.

 

Staying with KDP for a moment, Dale Evans did a deep dive into the new identity verification process that prove that you are a human to KDP. This is starting to feel very big brotherish and quite difficult. If you are a KDP author who hasn’t published in a while be aware that things have changed and you need to jump through a few more hoops, some of them flaming.

 

The bags will be packed ready for Frankfurt Book Fair beginning October 7^th Publishers Weekly has a packed roundup of all the trends and tech on offer this year.

 

A collection of organisations dedicated to promoting reading and the freedom to read in the United States are having a telethon. Their aim is to educate people about speaking up and using their voice and vote to protect the freedom to read at the grass roots level. They have enlisted a lot of authors in the virtual event. 

 

Meanwhile in Australia, parliamentarians, publishers, authors, and librarians came together to discuss how to raise reading rates in Australia. Publishing Perspectives asked Australia Reads CEO Anna Burkey how they were able to get so much buy in from their government. If only it was reflected here in NZ. (cough notbitteraboutBologna cough)

 

Publishers Weekly talked with authors about their brand new releases for Fall (or the lead up to Christmas as it is known down under) YA Dystopia is back with spinoffs and sequels to the big franchises from Fifteen years ago. Prepare for teenagers to battle to save the world in survival games. 

 

Agent Richard Curtis has an essay on the problems when your agent becomes a publisher. The blurring of the lines can bring big problems for authors.

 

Jenn Windrow has a great article Querying Is Not A Verdict On Your Book. Sometimes you query too soon. The book might not be ready. Jenn has four questions that you can ask yourself and your book before you get into the query trenches.

 

It is always great to read Rachel Thompson’s dose of reality for Book Marketing. 

Publishing and Visible are NOT the same. Here she helps the reader to refine who their 

Reader is and how to reach them. Essential reading for authors.

 

Harper Ross writes on Writer Unboxed about self doubt as she hit a milestone birthday. Do I Still Want To Write? May Be The Wrong Question. If you are looking at your current writing and wondering about whether you should continue, she has three key tests for you. This is great advice for writers who feel they are at a crossroads with their work.

 

In The Craft Section,

Flat character arc transformations- K M Weiland

Short Story Methods- Jo Lallo- Bookmark

Building fear into turning points- Becca Puglisi- Bookmark

Turning points- September Fawkes

Tips for bookending your novel- C S Lakin- Bookmark

 

In The Marketing Section

Using Video for Book Promo- Sandra Beckwith – Bookmark!

Why nobody can find your book on Amazon- Dale Evans- Bookmark

Facebook Ads for authors Tutorial - David Gaughran- Bookmark

40 Social Media Posts for the camera shy author- Tesa Barbosa- Bookmark!

A new sales channel. GimmeBook made by authors- sales pages and delivery in one place. Check It Out

 

To Finish

Readers read more books than you will ever write. Publishing the book is only the start, finding readers is the endgame for authors.  How do you find the readers who will love what you write? Ines Johnson breaks down how she niches down to find the exact reader who will love what she writes. She shares her tips in a great essay, I Don’t Need Every Reader. 

 

Finding the right reader and nurturing them is the end game for the writer.

Maureen

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Staying Hopeful Despite the Evidence.

 In Publishing News This Week…

 

Anthropic.

 

The settlement letters came out and there was an immediate outcry. So much that Writer Beware was documenting in real time as authors discovered publishers had claimed 100% of the payout share or were claiming for books whose rights had reverted. One sad author found a scam artist had laid claim to all of hers and she wasn’t the only one. These were not isolated instances. It almost looked as if it was deliberate. Widespread panic dominated social media. Claims need to be signed off by the end of this month so disputes have to be resolved fast with publishers. If you have an Anthropic claim check your correspondence carefully, even if it looks ok. Check in with Authors Guild on what you need to do. Drop in to Writer Beware for the latest updates including the new ‘helpful’ companies which will make this problem go away. (SCAM) 

 

Rolling up behind the Anthropic claim is the Open AI, Microsoft claim. Based on the previous lawsuits Authors Guild have asked the judge for a summary judgement, however much of the claims evidence has been redacted, reports Publishers Weekly.

 

On the other side of the fence, Chelle Honniker, who has a business teaching authors about AI has written an article explaining that authors signed up for AI Indexing. You are misguided about putting a line in your copyright notice about AI training. It is too late. 

Authors have missed a crucial understanding. The Anthropic case was about piracy, not training.

 

Kevin Kelly (of 1000 true fans fame) has written an interesting article, Arguments In Favour of AI Fair Use.  This is what the judge decided. Now how can we make it work in our favour. Kevin has always advocated a direct relationship with your readers as humans make connections with other humans. 

 

There is a backlash demanding that AI not be used in any image creative work. Illustrators who use digital illustration techniques are being branded as using AI- even when they haven’t. Glossy children’s book illustrations are being panned. Illustrators are now using more texture brushes to their work so they won’t be lumped in the AI slop basket. Recently I saw a claim that the digital texture brush tool makers are demanding in their sale contracts that they can’t be used in AI illustration. As news media reports another scary claim from the computer scientists who created AI, it is obvious that it is almost too late to put in safeguards. 

 

 Audible is pushing hard in the translated audio market with original audiobook titles they are translating into English. This used to take a long time and happened only if the books won print awards. Now Audible expect their Original to English translation market to grow to 25% of their English language audiobooks by the end of the year.

 

Publishing Perspectives reported on a white paper from Frankfurt Bookfair on AI narration. Who is narrating our future? The white paper had input from across the industry. However they noted that they were only able to write this paper if they assured the respondents that they would be anonymous, such is the sensitive nature of the subject in publishing. It is worth reading the article to get the facts and figures. 

 

Jami Gold has an interesting article on procrastination. She examines cognitive theory ideas for ways to help authors break out the blocks to productivity. There is great ad vice in here about mindset hacks.

 

Jane Friedman has an excerpt from M Stevenson’s book, It Depends: An Authors Practical Guide to Debut Year. The excerpt is on partnering with bookstores to run pre orders. This breaks down what you need to do with examples.

 

Rachel Thompson is known for her practical marketing advice and encouragement to authors around the web. Her latest article -8 Writing And Publishing Lessons I learned From Writing 8 Books is full of great advice. These 8 maxims about writing and marketing are timeless. This is a Print Out and Put on Your Wall post! 

 

In The Craft Section,

Serials – Start with a finished manuscript or write on the fly? - Simon Jones- Bookmark

Delivering backstory with setting- Angela Ackerman- Bookmark

10 standout tips for writing- Randy Susan Meyers- Bookmark

The Villains Journey-Debbie Burke- Bookmark

What should you write next- James Scott Bell-Bookmark!

 

In The Marketing Section

Honesty in book marketing- Sandra Beckwith

Paid Newsletters -Smart income stream or expensive 

distraction- Penny Sansevieri- Bookmark

Marketing without panic- Susan Odev- Bookmark

Maximising free book downloads- Bookbub- Bookmark

10 social media platforms for authors- Alliance of Independent Authors

 

To Finish

 

There are so many demands on your author business that often the way forward seems to be obscured. This week I was listening to Joanna Penn’s podcast interview with Tracy Cooper Posey on redesigning your author business for the environment that actually exists. It was a hopeful episode. Check out the transcript or listen when you can. No matter how small your actions are, they contribute to your author momentum forward. 

 

Go forth… even with small steps, you can reach your destination.

 

Maureen

@craicer

 

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Searching For A Market

This week in Publishing News,

 

This week Techcrunch published an article on how publishers will be able to opt out of AI searches due to new laws in the UK. The law states that AI search engines must offer a way to opt out, but with everyone using Chat GPT for search now, is that a good thing?

 

The recent US Book show examined the big movers in publishing, AI and Audio. Publishing Perspectives reports on some of the discussions and the importance of data when making decisions.

 

Publisher’s Weekly reports on an Author Guild survey on why author incomes are in decline. It’s all subscriptions fault, and libraries. People are still reading. So how do we get people to pay us for our stories?

 

Reading is a social activity. That’s the latest trend. (I can hear introverts screaming right now.) Publisher’s Weekly reports on a Frankfurt Bookfair virtual event discussing the global trend of reader social engagement that is bypassing publishers.

 

Kobo’s CEO Michael Tamblyn has a feature article on Publishing Perspectives about the office discussions on whether they would publish AI books. As he writes “This AI moment… is revealing a lot about what we believe to be important.” This is an inside look at what publishing companies are wrestling with.

 

If you want to lure a kid into the library, give them Manga. That’s the popular opinion of librarians according to Publishers Weekly who went out and surveyed them. From being very niche, it is now mainstream. It’s all down to librarians who nurtured those weird kids, giving them space to read, and now Manga is for the cool kids. 

 

Mark Williams calls out the hypocrisy from publishers as they publicly bemoan the use of AI while using it in their offices. I have some sympathy for the argument. He rightly calls out the double standard and how people are losing their jobs because of AI. It’s not, our office is more efficient as our staff are using AI tools. It’s our office replacement for staff are AI tools. 

 

Which type of Social Media is best? If you have been struggling with this question the latest article from the Alliance of Independent Authors is for you. Some social media brands work better for different genres. 

 

Alexa Bigwarfe has an interesting article on writing for AI search engines. How Is Your Next Reader Finding You? The Economist is already writing articles just for search engines. She explains about new marketing search and how authors can make their book findable in all the search noise.

 

Rachel Thompson has a great article on marketing. The Absolute Best Time To Market A Book Is Before It Exists. If you are scratching your head over that, you need to read the article. Do you want your readers to remember you?

 

The Indie Author magazine has an interesting interview with Deborah Wilde about the transition from screenwriter to books, navigating the publishing world, and reinventing yourself. 

 

In The Craft Section,

Meeting reader expectations- Jami Gold- Bookmark

Do you know Why?- Kathleen McCleary- Bookmark

How to choose the right character arc- K M Weiland -Bookmark

Writing the best twist- Janice Hardy- Bookmark

Interiority vs Visceral reactions-Susan Watts- Indepth article

 

In the Marketing Section,

Sending merch with ARC’s- Sandra Beckwith

A pitch is not a strategy- Kathleen Schmidt

Three leaks that are costing you- Alexa Bigwarfe- Bookmark

10 tips for setting up Direct Sales- Indie Author Mag- Bookmark

Give readers a clear way into your writing- Dan Blank- Bookmark

 

To Finish,

The shortlist for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children’s and Young Adults is out. I’ve judged these awards and it’s always a thrill to see what my peers have been up to and how creative our industry is. I’m especially noting how many great books are in the Te Reo section. Ka pai. It’s going to be another tough call picking the winners!

 

I’ve been thinking about the many hats that Writers wear. We can be cheerleaders for others, marketing apprentices with our own products, researchers of obscure things, and the biggest imposter syndrome badge holders. And we write as if we are separate from all those other identities. Recently I read Mark Leslie Lefebvres essay on trying to reconnect the different sides of his author life at Stoker Con. He writes so well about our dual lives and how sometimes one life takes over and crushes the other life. Food for thought. 

May you crush all your writing demons this week!

 

Maureen

@craicer

 

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The Writer Roller Coaster

In Publishing News This Week

 

Oh Meta, we know what you have done and now the courts know it too. 

The next AI scraping court case gets underway. Rumours are swirling that Mark Zuckerberg knew that they were using stolen files to train their AI. This court case is wider in scope than the Anthropic case. Publishing Perspectives has an overview of this case. There are now over 100 court cases pending on AI training irregularities.

 

This week children’s publisher Chronicle opens their submission box for un-agented submissions. One week only. You only have a few days, so check it out fast if you have something good. 

Publishing Perspectives reports that The Children’s Booker Award is open for submissions. This is the first time that the Children’s Booker prize will be awarded. And it has the same amount of prize money. We are finally legit, said every children’s writer. 

 

Staying with children’s writing, Recent news has highlighted the downturn in reading for pleasure amongst children. This could be because of screens, or it could be the undermining of reading by spending too much time on literacy achievements in school. Speaking as a teacher- My favourite times were reading to classes. When I speak with young teachers now, they say they are under so much pressure that they have stopped reading to their class. Mark Williams weighs in with his latest essay, Harper Collins and the Reading Crisis. 

 

Children’s writers have to maintain a squeaky clean persona so it was with real dismay that we learned down under of a children’s writer who has pled guilty to child exploitation. The violated trust is sending shock waves through the community. In the midst of all this are the books that have been enjoyed by countless children. How do you explain to children that their favourite author has been so nasty?  It’s enough to turn them off reading.

 

Publishers Weekly has an essay on How Chic Lit lost its footing. This looks at how ‘Chic Lit’ inspired films and has morphed into contemporary women’s fiction. 

Every time I see the patronising term ‘Chic Lit’ I remember a pithy comment from a writer friend that all those male gaze thrillers were just ‘Dick Lit.’ But of course, they would never be marketed as such would they?

 

Rise -The International Bookselling Conference was recently held in Verona and under discussion was the role Booksellers are playing in an increasingly dangerous world of attacks on free speech. Some of these booksellers were putting their lives on the line to stay open and create safe places for readers and writers.

 

Kathleen Schmidt has an interesting essay, Is Substack The New Book Tour. Kathleen is a book publicist, and she comments on the new trends that she sees in Book Promotion. Lately Substack has been talked about because of Lena Dunham’s memoir being featured quite heavily on book review pages.

 

After the roller coaster of emotions from this publishing news roundup you can be forgiven for feeling a little fragile. Katie Weiland has written about The Emotional Toll On Writers In The Modern Landscape. She has five ways to cope with the oversaturation of being constantly available.

 

Liz Adams has a fun essay on Anne R Allen’s blog about Writing Page Turners. It all has to do with secrets and who knows what secret each character is keeping. 

Sssh Don’t Tell Anyone but this is a really good advice! 

 

 

In The Craft Section,

Restarting old projects- Joe Lallo

Seeing your work clearly when editing- Susan Odev- Bookmark

Fear, phobias, and your characters- Angela Ackerman

Transitions- how often are you asking your readers to jump- Seth Harwood- Bookmark

Crafting deep scenes- Donald Maass- Bookmark

 

In the Marketing Section,

Author fairs – The hidden benefits- Rachel Thompson- Bookmark

Fiction Lead magnet ideas- Sandra Beckwith- Bookmark

Nicholas Erik on Facebook ads- Video. (Sign up for his excellent newsletter.) Bookmark

How Indie authors can build anthologies- Wendy Van Camp

Publishing in German- Joanna Penn interview with Skye Mackinnon- Excellent

 

To Finish

This is the last week that you can get the Storybundle of writing books. Kris Rusch asked the contributors in January if they had updated their popular books on craft and marketing in light of recent developments in publishing. The whole collection are updated exclusives to this Storybundle collection. I bought my first writing Storybundle about seven years ago and I remember devouring some of these books on a road trip. The beauty of Storybundle is that you get the digital files immediately and you can read them on any device- They are yours to keep. The authors get paid immediately and a percentage of your donation goes to charity. You can choose just to get 3 books for a modest charge or donate more money to get the whole lot. Check it out and share it among your writer friends. You don’t want to miss out.

 

Maureen

@craicer

 

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Book Bans – The Non Gift for Writers

 

In Publishing News this week

 

In another blow for libraries in the United States, the supreme court has denied an appeal to re consider a book banning case in Texas. The decision affects three states and affects the freedom to access information. Publisher’s Weekly reports on the impacts that are likely to freedom of speech. 

 

The judgments being handed down on the United States courts have a bearing on publishing worldwide according to a symposium on Future Proofing Equality in Children’s Publishing held recently in the United Kingdom. Most of these book banning judgements center around children’s books. With diversity, equity, and inclusion hot topics in children’s publishing, the flow on effects from the US are impacting children’s books worldwide. Publishing Perspectives report on the symposium highlighted the increase in books being dropped before publication just in case they might violate some US ban.

 

The School Library Journal published an open letter from the owner of Lee And Low Publishing about the danger of soft censorship. Jason Low exhorts publishers to keep publishing inclusive titles. Soft censorship is a slippery slope to restriction of information. Everybody needs to get behind challenges to book banning including publishers. 

 

PEN International is an organization supported by author groups worldwide to shine a light on writers who have been imprisoned for speaking truth to power. They are fund raising for various legal campaigns for imprisoned writers. Many well known authors have supported by donating amazing collectables to the literary auction.

 

New Zealand is one of the few countries to have a Public Lending Right. This means that writers are compensated for having books in public libraries. Recently all the PLR countries got together to have an international body reports Publishing Perspectives. They are looking to exchange ideas and international cooperation.

 

Lit Hub is reporting on the possible Netflix Warner Brothers merger and why author societies are up in arms about it. Can you see any danger in a large corporation controlling all the entertainment media? Yes, Publishing books is in entertainment media.

 

Dan Holloway reports the European Union has not exempted books from the deforestation regulations. This is going to impact publishing supply chains as paper is crucial in publishing books.  James Daunt, CEO of the largest book chains in the world told the BBC that he would sell AI produced books if someone wanted to buy them. Watch for new dartboard pictures in publishing offices.

 

Mark Leslie Lefavbre is a well respected commentator on publishing. He has done pretty much every job in it. He has an essay on how the traditional slush pile has moved out of the publishing in-box and into the digital publishing sphere. He makes some great points and is a must read.

 

Agent Richard Curtis looks at collaborations and how they can be richly rewarding or a nightmare of unrealistic expectations. He talks about the best projects that lend themselves to collaborations.

 

Rachel Thompon has an outstanding post on relationship based book marketing. This is the post you need when you are figuring out how to show that you are not an AI. She offers lots of tips, and reasons to stop saying buy my book everywhere.

 

Jane Friedman has been highlighting memoir this week. She has two guest posts on the process of writing memoir. It’s Not About You. Your Memoir is Someone Elses Story by Allison Williams and Why Your Memoir Feel Like its Rambling and How To Fix It by Wendy Dale.

 

 

In the Craft Section

2 excellent posts from Janice Hardy- Freshen up tired tropes and How to edit without feeling overwhelmed- Bookmark

4 ways to protect yourself when writing trauma- Rachel Warmath- Bookmark

Anticipation – writing thesaurus- Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

Trying out dictation- Gabriele Pereira

 

In the Marketing Section

2026 literary calendar- Sandra Beckwith- Bookmark!

Running successful events- Jillian Forsberg- Bookmark

12 proven book marketing campaigns- Penny Sansevieri- Bookmark

2 different approaches to direct selling- Sacha Black and Joanna Penn (podcast)

How does a good book get discovered – Brian Feinblum

 

To Finish

It’s December which means…  Lists of gifts for writers. Lit Hub has 50 interesting gifts for writers  If you are looking for a really good resource, The Dream Team of Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi have a Buy One Get One Free Thesaurus sale. If you haven’t checked out these amazing books… run to their store.

 

If you have any mid grade Sci Fi and Fantasy fans, there is a book giveaway happening over December. You can even get my book Star Light for free.

 

Maureen

@craicer

 

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