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  1. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Bookseller sales figures-any tea readers out there?

    Paperback paradox: volume falls as value rises SEP 18, 2025BY ALEX CALL Freida McFadden © Mira Whiting Bookshops across the country might be starting to rejig their displays in an effort to make room for publishers’ switch of focus to hardbacks, but we should pause before then to say goodbye...
  2. David Newrick

    Craft Chat 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' - King

    The quote 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' is attributed to Stephen King. After giving it a tremendous amount of thought I bore this in mind in my own writing for novels like Scenes From A Dying Planet and my WIP. Before I write anything on Litopia about my thoughts on this quote...
  3. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Translated fiction is attracting readers seeking freshness in a copycat publishing world.

    Another Bookseller article I'd like to know more about. https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/outplaying-the-algorithms?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing
  4. From Our Blog

    Please Comment: Be my, be my Beta.

    New blog post by Jake E Be my, be my Beta. I really need to spend less time on X. Once again, I’ve stumbled upon a heated discussion on social media that I can’t help but add my two cents/pence/shillings to, and this time, I can’t understand why or how it’s a discussion. It concerns those...
  5. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day When you want to move readers ...

    “When you want to move readers excitedly along, keep your sentences short and crisp. If you’re describing a languid trip down a lazy river, however, allow your sentence lengths to match that slower pace.” David A. Fryxell
  6. Aethalope

    Craft Chat Royal Road Experiment - The Stats!

    Data and Insights from an RR Experiment (Yes, I am presenting this as a research paper. It's the closest I'll ever get to my own academic publication.) Abstract/Summary I posted Volume I (40 chapters) of a planned four-volume series on Royal Road as free serialized fiction. My main goals were...
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    Please Comment: Dems the rulez

    New blog post by Jake E Dems the rulez Once again, I find myself writing about an argument I stumbled upon on X (Can’t they agree on anything over there?) and I just had to offer my thoughts on it in case anyone was interested. The argument in question? Writing rules, do they have a point...
  8. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Tell the readers....

    ‘Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.' Anne McCaffrey
  9. R

    Glad to be here

    Hi there, amazing to have found this place - I'm hoping to get some advice... I have written a novel, Life's Journey with the Occasional Alien, and really could use some fresh eyes on it to give me some honest opinions. Please feel free to drop me a line. Roy
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