Thursday, September 17, 2026

Jane Friedman / 5:00 am Eastern

A standout writing voice is a mixture of your natural style and sentence-level decisions that bring who you are to life.

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Publishing Perspectives / 8:20 am Eastern

Next month's Frankfurter Buchmesse will have a focus on Czechia in their turn as guest of honor country. The country is already seeing the benefit of the program through increased interest in their authors. The post Czech Book Industry Sees Guest of Honor Role as Boost for International Promotion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .

Publishing Perspectives / 7:49 am Eastern

François von Hurter, publisher and co-founder of Bitter Lemon Press, said the new imprint will focus on "international fiction you enter at your own risk, that gets under your skin before it lets you go.” The post U.K. Indie Bitter Lemon Press Launches New ‘International’ Imprint appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .

Poets & Writers / 10:54 am Eastern

Creative Nonfiction “To translate a book is to enter into a relationship with it, to approach and accompany it, to know it intimately, word by word, and to enjoy the comfort of its company in return,” says Jhumpa Lahiri in her 2021 Sebald Lecture “In Praise of Echo.” In the lecture, Lahiri invites readers to think of translation in broad terms, as not simply restating something in another...

BookBaby Blog / 10:46 am Eastern

By BookBaby author Madison Brown As an independent author, it can be challenging to build your audience and keep them engaged on social media. With the right strategy and approach (and some good lighting), you can post like a pro and connect with readers online and off.

Copyright Alliance / 9:46 am Eastern

This is part one of a four-part blog series about AI companies use of pirated copies of copyrighted works taken from illicit sources to train their AI models. As generative […] The post AI’s Piracy Problem: You Can’t Build an Empire on Stolen Goods appeared first on Copyright Alliance .

Self-Publishing Advice Center / 8:00 am Eastern

Before anything else, a point of clarification after reading Jane Friedman's incredibly in-depth roundup of all things Anthropic. The wrangling over lawyers' fees, she has said, should not delay the onset of payments to rights holders. The first of those payments, in instances where there is clarity over who the rights holders are, should start trickling through in November.

The Scholarly Kitchen / 6:22 am Eastern

What if the systems designed to protect scientific rigor are also making it harder for new ideas to emerge? Do different scholarly contributions deserve unique forms of evaluation? The post Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen .