My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

Excellent essay by the inimitable @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on renewables, fuel shocks, and the AMOC. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/truth-conseq...

The links I shared with writers last week: elizabethspanncraig.com/uncategorize... . All the links I've ever shared (free and searchable): Writerskb.com

#WritingQuestions #indieauthor #amwritingfantasy #writerssociety #wip

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

ME, A HARPER AUTHOR FROM ANOTHER IMPRINT, ON READING THIS: well, i guess i can just go fuck myself i guess BLINK: you can’t do that either garbage face

If you're not supporting @talkscratch.bsky.social already this should be a great push to do so. Rahawa's analysis on this is so clear (if so depressing) and there's nobody else publishing these kinds of pieces anymore.

In conjunction with Children’s Book Week, May 4–10, Chronicle is once again opening its slush pile to unagented children’s book creators

#nzpol Outstanding @rodemmerson.bsky.social 😂😂😂

#WriterSupport #WritingCommunity #WritingGoals #BookEditorJourney #indieauthor

Again, yes, a lot of YA these days is written for and marketed towards adults rather than teens. That is a PUBLISHER CREATED PROBLEM that reader's are feeding into. Creating an imprint that explicitly attacks it's own age category doesn't solve this problem, it just makes it worse.

wild how folk get to just lie to the journo hacks these days & the journo hacks as just "uh-huh, yup, that sounds sensible, AI will gain sentience on Tuesday and start rewriting the very fabric of reality, you say, and we will all have unicorn ponies by Wednesday, let me just write that up for you"

"Mum/Dad/Aunty/Uncle(over 50s), I want you to do the children a favor. You know things have been going rapidly downhill. Right & centralist led government austerity policy is making things worse. I want you to think about the next generation & consider voting Green in the upcoming election." #nzpol

My weekly roundup of #publishing news, #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up free on Substack. Hard Lessons Learned. open.substack.com/pub/maureenc... #writingcommunity #bookindustrynews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Hard Learned Lessons buff.ly/xf8vFM3 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

The narcissism is strong with this one...🙄

IT CAN’T CONFESS! IT ISN’T SENTIENT! FFS, people.

Congratulations to @geckopress.bsky.social @postwavebooks.bsky.social & @childsplayusa.bsky.social #BestBooksForBabies 2026 www.kidsburgh.org/best-books-f...

A focus on literacy skills by parents and teachers is “actively undermining” efforts to get children reading for pleasure, new research by HarperCollins has suggested 👇 #BookSky

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

Part of being a woman is spending seven years researching a book, giving 130 pages of endnotes, and having male writers accuse you of just making everything up.

"But first, we can’t talk about paperbacks without talking about the fact that everyone is out of work."

"Accelerate NZ Go-All-Electric vehicles/solar+wind+batteries ASAP" #nzpol

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

Year of Space Facts: Week 16/52 🔭🧪🛰️ The Milky Way is gorgeous in visible light, but there is so much more to it! In light ranging from radio waves a meter long to high energy gamma rays, our galaxy is beautiful in every perspective. 📸 NASA

PSA: Hachette workers are currently leading the largest unionization campaign in publishing history and they're inviting all of us (readers, publishing professionals, anyone with a full name and an email address) to sign in support 💜 hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

I wrote the book you pick up when you set down the Impressive Biography and I am not sorry in the least

Here's a school-night adaptation of the classic military marching song "The British Grenadiers" (popular in both 18th c. Britain and the colonies) wishing #KingCharles luck on his #statevisit - we're calling it: "The British King is Here!" 🥁 youtu.be/5gwB0i0HyB8 #royalfamily #USUKRelations

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

A #free post on #writing from my book, The Write Attitude, which is available *only* through Storybundle right now. Take a look! #books #booksky @storybundle.bsky.social kriswrites.com/2026/04/26/t...

54 Writing Contests in May 2026 — No entry fees! by @EricaVerrillo curiosityneverkilledthewriter.com/54-writing-c...

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

#HIP #indiebooks #mysteryauthor #novels #patreoncreator #theauthorspen

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up. The More Things Change... The blog turns 18! buff.ly/X6I7Kk4 #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

Dragons and Taxes: Blending the Fantastic with the Mundane, a guest post by Emily B. Martin Embracing the mundane in fantasy doesn’t lessen the magic for me—it highlights it. It makes it feel approachable and familiar. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/04/24/d... @tltkaren.bsky.social