The agent’s job is to judge offers and fight for their best for their writer. To find a publisher for your book, make you ...

In 1970, a New York publishing company put out a debut novel by an editor and former teacher from Ohio. The press, then known as Holt, Rinehart and Winston, had taken a chance on the book, which had ...

AI has the power to pump out words in record speed. And already, that’s substantially inflating the book publishing market. Lovers of LLMs are pushing into the traditional publishing system, building ...

You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...

A hundred years ago, it wasn’t easy being a reader. Books were expensive and libraries weren’t common, so it was hard to get your hands on your next read. In 1926, a magazine editor, professor, and ...

Large language models can discern stylistic patterns from sample texts with remarkable accuracy. In my previous blog, I outlined five ways in which publishing can, and likely will, use AI to ...

Conventional wisdom has long held that it’s best to avoid releasing new books during the fall of a presidential election. Our phones are flooded with fundraising text messages. Our mailboxes are ...