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This Week’s Bestsellers: September 22, 2025 Dan Brown’s thriller *The Secret of Secrets* shot straight to the top of Publishers Weekly’s hardcover fiction list, knocking Colleen Hoover’s *It Ends With Us* to #2. Mick Herron’s *Clown Town* joined his popular spy series on the list, and new titles...

Marco Jochum named PRH’s EVP and Director of Global Human Resources Penguin Random House promoted Marco Jochum to executive vice‑president and director of global human resources. In the new role he will convene HR leaders across the company and continue heading the HR function at PRH Germany...

Trump sues Penguin Random House for $15 billion Former U.S. president Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, Penguin Random House and the authors of the book *Lucky Loser*, seeking $15 billion in damages. He claims the book and a series of Times articles disparage...

Self‑Publishers Rise Up at 2025 Ignatz Awards Independent creators made an impressive showing at the 28th annual Ignatz Awards at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. Fantagraphics took two of the evening’s biggest prizes, but the article notes that many self‑published and small‑press...

Tariq Ashkanani and David Goodman triumph at Bloody Scotland At the Bloody Scotland festival, crime writers Tariq Ashkanani and David Goodman – both previously featured as support acts in the Crime in the Spotlight programme – won top honours. Their success highlights how the festival helps...

(I'm still fiddling with this, there may be some duplication with yesterday's list...) This Week’s Bestsellers: September 15, 2025 New picture books dominate the latest Publisher Weekly bestseller list. A Stephen King and Maurice Sendak retelling of *Hansel and Gretel* tops the picture‑book...

Sorry about yesterday, here is today's summary. I may try to automate the posting procedure here so that it still gets posted even if I'm not physically at my desk to do so... :) p. - Words Without Borders Receives $100,000 Grant – The Hawthornden Foundation gave Words Without Borders a...

To write a great book, you must first become the book. Naval Ravikant

I get a daily summary of the most important publishing news (UK and US) from the usual trade news sources… today’s bulletin is below. I’d be happy to share it in the Colony… Let me know if you might find this useful, or if it would be overkill. --- Author Sam Blake urges 'better protections'...

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Last week my husband sent me this terrifying article—a Microsoft study about the 40 jobs likely to be most imminently impacted by AI and the 40 that might be safest. I’m going to let you guess where writers and editors...

Imagine reading a book, and there is no way to go back to the previous pages. How careful will you read it? That's Life. Anonymous

'There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.' Robertson Davies

No he doesnt.

I heard that ChatGPT could now produce book covers and that it used a new method which was less likely to produce artefacts like three arms and eight fingers! I gave it the basic facts and a brief book description. The first attempt is the brownish one. I had heard that you could adjust an...

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The Situation: I have just completed Volume I on Royal Road and plan three more volumes this year (those readers do love consistent verbiage). For the covers going forward, I would like to pay a local artist whose work I adore. She's up for it and seems interested in branching out into book...

This from a Facebook friend of mine: The latest Kafkaesque absurdity from Amazon (and naturally, there is no way to appeal): Hello, During our review, we found that the following book(s) causes a misleading customer experience because it impairs customers' ability to make good buying decisions...

Came across this. Might be interesting: https://www.indieauthorbookfair.com/upcoming-events No idea if it's any good, but I'm thinking of going since it's on my doorstep. Anyone else going? Let me know and we can visit the local pup and get very sloshed beforehand for a quick drink.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/i-have-been-an-ai-researcher-for-40-years-what-tech-giants-are-doing-to-book-publishing-is-akin-to-theft

Deciding to write a book, it never feels like a great idea. It’s always like knowingly entering a bad marriage. If you had any sense, you wouldn’t do it, but you know you’re going to do it. Percival Everett