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None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn't Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn't Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

Debbie Urbanski on the Invasive Expectations of Book Publicity and Their Unintended Consequences

By Debbie Urbanski | May 22, 2025

What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

Maris Kreizman on the Realities of Seeing Your Book Out Into the World

By Maris Kreizman | April 10, 2025

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities

By Maris Kreizman | February 13, 2025

Do Authors Really Need to Spend Their Own Money to Make a Book Successful?

Do Authors Really Need to Spend Their Own Money to Make a Book Successful?

Maris Kreizman on Independent Publicists, Books Tours, and Vanishing Book Coverage

By Maris Kreizman | June 20, 2024

There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity

There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity

Maris Kreizman on the Dangers of Mass Production

By Maris Kreizman | April 11, 2024

How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

How to Be Photographed: 12 Tips for Putting Your Best Writerly Face Forward

Michelle Wildgen on the Art of the Author Photo

By Michelle Wildgen | January 2, 2024

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Simon & Schuster UK is launching a TikTok hype house for books.

By Janet Manley | June 5, 2023

This is how you publicize the reissue of a classic dystopian novel.

By Jonny Diamond | May 3, 2023

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

By Lauren Acampora | August 23, 2022

Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

“I am a contradiction. I am a performer and a monk.”

By Sidik Fofana | August 17, 2022

The Sally Rooney coffee cart just won an award.

The Sally Rooney coffee cart just won an award.

By Walker Caplan | January 27, 2022

Donald Trump plagiarized a glowing blurb from HarperCollins.

Donald Trump plagiarized a glowing blurb from HarperCollins.

By Walker Caplan | July 15, 2021

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

John Tresch on the Advent of Extreme Publicity

By John Tresch | June 16, 2021

How I (Barely) Survived the Abject Failure of My Much Hyped Debut Novel

How I (Barely) Survived the Abject Failure of My Much Hyped Debut Novel

David Hollander Tells a Cautionary Tale for Us All

By David Hollander | March 10, 2021

Will Online-Only Events Bring Book Sales? No One Knows Yet

Will Online-Only Events Bring Book Sales? No One Knows Yet

Amid a Pandemic, Publicists Are Changing Course

By Kate Dwyer | March 26, 2020

Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Inside France's Fall Publishing Frenzy, aka 'Oscar Season For Books'

Clémentine Goldszal on La Rentrée Littéraire

By Clémentine Goldszal | November 4, 2019

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