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How One of the Biggest Literary Agencies in Publishing Lost Almost All Credibility Overnight

By Kimberly TerasakiMay 16th
Publishing’s Unlivable Wages Delayed a Highly Anticipated Sequel From a Bestselling Author

By Rachel UlatowskiMar 17th
Literary Agent’s Racist ‘Advice’ Sums Up So Many of the Problems in Publishing

By Alyssa ShotwellJan 26th
HarperCollins Authors Are Turning Down Awards in a Show of Worker Solidarity

By Alyssa ShotwellNov 29th
Penguin, Simon & Schuster Merger Block Prevents One Company From Controlling Two Thirds of Publishing

By Alyssa ShotwellNov 1st
Barnes & Noble Strategy Shift Already Proving Disastrous For Marginalized Authors

By Alyssa ShotwellAug 22nd
Writing Disability: When The Question of “What’s Wrong With Me?” Doesn’t Have an Answer

By Anna MerianoAug 17th
How I Manage Both Science & Writing Fantasy

By Elisa BonninAug 12th
99.5% of HarperCollins Union Vote in Favor to Initiate a Strike For Equitable Pay

By Alyssa ShotwellJul 6th
9 SFF Authors You Need to Follow on AuthorTok & BookTok (a.k.a. TikTok for Readers)

By Alyssa ShotwellApr 8th
Pitch Wars Ending Was Inevitable, But The Effects it Had on The Online Writing Community Were Game Changing

By Alyssa ShotwellFeb 17th
Another International SFF Writer Faces Payment Barrier, This Time From Amazon

By Alyssa ShotwellJan 18th
Authors Turn to Twitter To Share What Their Books Are Actually About vs. How They’re Marketed

By Alyssa ShotwellJan 11th
7+ Science Fiction and Fantasy Books by Trans Authors to Obsess Over

By Alyssa ShotwellNov 17th
6 Popular YA Authors Announced a Teen NFT Writing Community, It Went as Well as You Would Think

By Alyssa ShotwellOct 21st
Actually, Authors of Color Have Been Out Here Giving Us Epic Fantasy Bangers, Here Are 9+ of Them

By Alyssa ShotwellOct 20th
Authors Rapidly Drop Out of Book Festival After Finding Host’s Anti-LGBT Policies

By Alyssa ShotwellSep 24th
7 Books by Native & Indigenous Authors That Breathe New Life Into Speculative Fiction

By Larissa IrankundaNov 10th
These 8 Horror Novels by Diverse Authors Add a New Dimension To the Genre

By Larissa IrankundaOct 30th
My Protagonist Is Not the Center of the Universe: One Author’s Take on How to Not Write the White Savior

By Laura BickleJan 5th