The publishing world has changed. Discover why authors are choosing independent publishing, self-publishing, and building their audiences over Big Five deals. The modern publishing industry is undergoing a seismic shift. For decades, the Big Five publishers — Penguin...
I had the pleasure of recently attending and presenting at the ISMTE 2025 North American Annual Conference — Editors Without Borders: Breaking Silos in a Technological World. The conference took place August 5–8, 2025 in Montréal, a melting pot of a city emblematic of...
Why Print Books Still Matter A generation ago, when an author was ready to take a book to print, the meaning of doing this was, quite literally, going “to print”—that is, making the book into a print copy. In today’s world, though, things are much more complicated...
Is an Ebook the Right Call When publishing a book, authors must make a critical decision about whether to pursue the print route or the ebook route. In Part I of this two-part series, we discussed the advantages of sticking to the old-fashioned way and opting for...
If you’ve seen The Terminator as many times as I have, the explosion of AI tools into multiple industries is a little scary. While we’re hopefully still a few decades off from the machines becoming self-aware enough to start hunting humans, it’s clear that AI tools...
