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Harper Collins Employees Vote to Go on Strike
By Lori Perkins Harper Collins is the only American publishing company with a union (a member of the UAW), and now 99% of its employees...


James Paterson Claims White Male Authors Experience a “Form of Racism”
By David T. Valentin As is the case as of lately, a mediocre white man comes out and puts themselves on the guillotine to be ridiculed by...


LAMBDA Literary Announces the 34th Annual Award Finalists
By David T. Valentin Image taken from Lambda Literary's website Just yesterday, Lambda Literary, a nonprofit organization whose goal is...


Brandon Sanderson Raises More Than $27 Million on Kickstarter for 4 Secret Novels
By Lori Perkins Last week I was a speaker at a disaffiliated chapter of Romance Writers of America where one of the pieces of advice I...


Twenty Years After
By Lori Perkins I have been dreading this day, not because I lost anyone personally but because of the frenzied bizarre display of public...


“Cat Person” and Blurring the Line of Fiction and Reality
By Rachel Zimny The short story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian was published almost four years ago in The New Yorker and was...


Riverdale Avenue Books Wins Two Bronze IPPY Awards
By Lori Perkins Riverdale Avenue Books received their two Bronze IPPY Awards last night at the 25th annual Independent Publishers Book...


Sourcebooks Announces New Imprint with Fifty Shades of Grey Author, E.L. James
By Lori Perkins Over the weekend, Sourcebooks, one of the only publishing companies created and run by a woman, announced the launch of a...


Stacey Abrams New Thriller Coming in May
By Lori Perkins On top of saving the world for democracy, and making a documentary about it, All In: The Fight for Democracy, super woman...


British YouTuber Sell Children’s’ Book Based on COVID Poem
Tomos Roberts, a 26 year-old British poet and filmmaker, created a simple “Princess Bride”-esque fairly tale about life before and after...


The 2019 Ripped Bodice Diversity in Publishing Report is Out And The News Is Still Not Good
The Ripped Bodice, the country’s first all-romance bookstore (located in Los Angeles) has published its fourth annual diversity in...


Tone Deaf “Diverse” Covers on Classic Novels Latest Public Misstep by Publishing Industry
2020 is already off to a hard start for the mainstream publishing industry with the fall from grace of the #RWAshitshow, followed by the...
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