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Book Summary Apps are All the Rage, but Are They a Danger to Authors?
If you’re a millennial, you probably used SparkNotes at some point in high school to help summarize a book for English class. I fully admit that I tried my best to get through Jane Eyre, but Charlotte Bronte and I do not agree on writing style and pacing. The...
LGBTQ+ Books for All Age Groups
June is pride month, and with this, we wanted to present a collection of LGBTQ+ books for any preteen/ adolescent/ human who might be interested in this genre! LGBTQ literature explores LGBTQ+ experiences, history, relationships, and more. Queer literature can be a...
Feeling the Burn: How to Avoid Burnout While Writing a Book
For most authors, writing is far more than just a career—it’s a passion. The thought of starting a new book project is, at first, one that sparks rigorous motivation and enthusiasm. But all too often, that initial “get up and go” mentally quickly melts away into...
This is the Blog About Death: Celebrating World Goth Day with Gothic Literature
Since 2009, May 22 is World Goth Day. According to the website, the holiday is “a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world." For those of us who haven’t been in a high school...
Gothic Literature: Publishing the Eerie and Macabre
Halloween isn’t the sole occasion for spooky tales that send shivers down your spine. If you’re a fan of horror like me, you'll enjoy a chilling novel any day, whether it's the witching hour or not. Have you heard about indie publishers dedicated to all things dark...
Tips for Writing a Romantasy
Romantasy is a fiction genre that has recently been growing in popularity, particularly on Booktok (the book subsection of the TikTok social media app). But what is this genre, and how can you write a romantasy book that might become a best-seller? Romantasy — a...
Stories that Stick, by Kindra Hall
Writers, if you’re like me, then you probably love devouring books that can help you navigate the complicated world of publishing. It’s exciting to announce, then, that Technica Editorial is starting a new book review series to share some of the standout books that...
Fact, Fiction, and Form: The Art and Creation of Memoirs
To begin creating a memoir, writers must learn how to express their reality in an artistic format. Defining a memoir is the first step in this style’s creative nonfiction writing process. When trying to create a personal portrait reported in unshaped facts and...
Golden Fig Books: An Independent Bookstore Feature to Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day
An Independent Bookstore is defined as a bookstore that is independently owned and not a part of a larger corporation. In celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, which is recognized on the last Saturday in April, I have reached out to a local independent bookstore...
The Art of the Book
Depending on the corners of the internet you inhabit, the algorithm might show you, like it does for me, crafty videos of people using paper, twine, glue, cardstock, leather, and all manner of other things to make and bind their own books and journals. Book binding,...
Human Nature: What Human Help Can Do That AI Cannot
In today’s world, artificial intelligence (AI) is, slowly but surely, becoming just as much of a staple to the publishing industry as the internet. Its advantages include allowing the writing and editing processes to become faster, more streamlined, and, in some...
An Author’s Guide to Building a Readership
Whether you’re an author who’s traditionally published or self-published, you can’t expect your book to sell itself. With the large number of new titles published each year, how do you stand out in the crowd? While an obvious way to sell books is to run ads and marketing campaigns, it can be costly if you don’t already have a good foundation and marketing...
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Evolution of Feminism
Wisdom Born of Pain An anthology of essays forming a fascinating mosaic of viewpoints, insights, and understandings—Can We All Be Feminists? is a must-read for anyone looking to change their views via empathy and intersectional feminism. “Intersectional feminism” is a term that represents the intersections of oppression—how non-white women, LGBT+ women,...
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist: A Discussion
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist: A Discussion To truly embrace the pledge of equal opportunity employment and ensure fair treatment and opportunity for all workers, businesses, including those in publishing, must act to rectify imbalances resulting from a socioeconomic system based on the historical disadvantaging of certain groups based on their...
How to responsibly write and edit with anti-racism in mind: writing and editing in the time of COVID and black lives matter
2020 was a year of global change on an unprecedented scale. COVID-19 changed how we work, live, and interact with others, and issues like racial injustice took center stage like never before. With that in mind, it is important that we as writers and editors adjust how we do our jobs accordingly. Here are some ways to make sure that what you write and edit...
Large Group Authorship: Benefits and Hurdles
Trends in global research pointed to a more open research environment in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, partially due to a push for collaboration among countries and scientists (on the part of organizations such as the World Health Organization), efforts to make research more open have been further amplified. The areas where open science...
Can Open Peer Review Replace Traditional Models?
With the push toward increased transparency and open access continuing to grow in the scholarly publishing industry, the issue of open peer review is gaining more and more traction. That’s not to say that open peer review is a new concept. Open peer review has been discussed since the 1980s and journal societies such as the British Medical Journal and PLOS...
A Self-Publishing Author’s Guide to Editing
Congratulations! You finally finished that story. Now what? Whether you think it’s a terrible first draft and you’re unsure what to do next or it’s your sixth rewrite and you’re ready to send it to publishers, the next step should be editing. But what kind of editing is right for you? Editing, particularly in the self-publishing world, goes by many...
Gender Balance in the Sciences: What Does the Altmetric Top 100 Tell Us?
Each year, Altmetric, the organization that tracks the online attention published research receives, compiles the Altmetric Top 100, a list of the most-discussed scholarly contributions of the year. Analysis of the Altmetric Top 100 can provide insight into the sizes of research teams, the balance of genders in different fields of research, and even gender...
Watch: Technica Editorial Makes Slime in Honor of National Chemistry Week
Stick with chemists across the world in celebrating #NationalChemistryWeek 2020 with the theme "Sticking with Chemistry." In honor of this week, Technica Editorial brought three generations together to make slime. Check it out with a recipe and instructions at the end for all viewers to get in on the fun! #NCW #StickyChemistry #Chemistry
Can Plan S Survive COVID-19?
In the publishing industry, perhaps the only issue that is talked about more than COVID-19 is Plan S. I’ll spare everyone a recap of Plan S (but we’ve written about it here and discussed it extensively here), but the ISMTE virtual conference held in August included a plenary discussion on the topic of Plan S with plenty of intriguing updates....