Probably not a day goes by that I don’t hear from a writer about a publishing industry scam they’ve encountered. Sometimes the scam is someone impersonating me, sometimes the scam is impersonating an agent, publisher, or editor.
I’ve always found reading about Ireland compelling, having family lineage that includes a paternal great great grandmother who immigrated from County Cork to Galveston in the nineteenth century. Mary Beth Keane’s Whale Harbor,her fifth novel, was a revelation. She tracks several generations of one family rooted in Ireland, who migrate to England, Montana, and New…
Reacher author Lee Child confirmed that Andrew Child will author the Jack Reacher books moving forward and explained why it made sense.
Some writers worry that AI detection software could falsely flag their work, potentially ruining reputations or job opportunities before they have a chance to prove the detectors wrong. karetoria/hide caption
Washington, DC – In an experiment reflecting the rapid transformations brought about by artificial intelligence in the world of publishing and authorship, a writer successfully produced approximately 370 books in just 20 months.
Sarah V. Barnes is both a historian and a horsewoman. Her first novel, “She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe,” received the 2022 Best Indie Book Award for Historical Fiction, among other prizes. “A Clan Chief’s Daughter,” finalist for the 2026 Nautilus Prize for Historical Fiction and the 2026 Colorado Book Award…
The airy, modern home shared by Val McDiarmid and Joe Sharp on the outskirts of Edinburgh is surrounded by greenery and looks as if it was designed to provide enough space for two minds to think. Both women are high achievers in their respective fields, a Scottish power couple made up of a crime queen
“It’s just a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.” This first appeared in Lit Hub art of writing Newsletter—Sign up here. Article continues after ad I don’t work on an epic scale, although my ambitions run more to epic proportions than I’d like to admit.It is a question of focus.
Let’s be honest about something: The fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to complete your novel. Writing is hard because your human brain, which has been running and updating biological human survival software for about 200,000 years,
IIn late February 2022, Charlie Walker set out on a hiking holiday in Northern Siberia. In temperatures as low as -50C, they intended to sail a thousand miles north along the frozen surface of the Lena River, then across the solid Laptev Sea to the port city of Tiksi, before eventually flying to London. “The