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Why BookScan Is Different from Book Sales (Which Are Different from Royalty Statements)
A quick explainer post on book sales and BookScan. Plus, a little publishing gossip.
Apr 24
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The Principles of Plotting Part Two: Oscillation
The second entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
Apr 17
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I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too
Thoughts on the bad state of book reviews. Plus, a review of a great book: Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora (translated by Rahul Bery)
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Turning Off the TV in Your Mind
Dec 12, 2024
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What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
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No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies
Sep 4, 2022
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Three Thoughts on the NYT Top 100: Missing Millennials, Fading Autofiction, the Genre-Bending Era
Jul 13, 2024
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What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
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Yes, People Do Buy Books
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What Memoir Scandals Tell Us about Two LLM Writing Scandals
On James Frey, Amy Griffin, Shy Girl, and LLM book reviews.
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Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish
The editors and co-publishers on literary resurrections, running a hybrid press, and being “nimble and imaginative” as a small publisher.
Mar 25
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What It Means that Hachette Just Canceled an AI Novel
Quick Thoughts on the Canceled (Seemingly) LLM-Authored Novel
Mar 20
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MFA vs. Publishing Round 2,000
Some quick thoughts on the unending MFA discourse, LLM books flooding publishing, and other things.
Mar 18
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Processing: How Andrew Martin Wrote Down Time
The author on drafting, revision, and being “drawn to stories about unhappy people making one another’s lives miserable.”
Mar 10
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The View from Inside: On Adding Interiority to Your Fiction
Plus, five years of Counter Craft and a subscription incentive
Mar 5
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What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.
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Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
Feb 10
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Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset
The Washington Post shutting down its books coverage is a reminder that we have to do it ourselves
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