How to Research Agents and Publishers Like a Pro

Jane Friedman walks us through how to research agents and publishers to evaluate fit and reputation, plus more from Writer's Digest!
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7 Book Proposal Pet Peeves From Publishers

Award-winning author and podcaster Debra Eckerling shares book proposal pet peeves from seven different publishers to help writer submissions.
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The Long Wait of the Publishing Process

Author John Bateson shares his experience with the long wait of the publishing process, from idea to eventual publication.
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5 Myths of Writing and Publishing Success

Agent Kate McKean breaks down five common myths of writing and publishing success that many writers believe (and why they shouldn't).
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#BookPublishers #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #Books #Publishers #Copyright #IP: "What's far more likely is that PRH will use whatever legal rights it has to insist that AI companies pay it for the right to train chatbots on the books we write. It is vanishingly unlikely that PRH will share that license money with the writers whose books are then shoveled into the bot's training-hopper. It's also extremely likely that PRH will try to use the output of chatbots to erode our wages, or fire us altogether and replace our work with AI slop.

This is speculation on my part, but it's informed speculation. Note that PRH did not announce that it would allow authors to assert the contractual right to block their work from being used to train a chatbot, or that it was offering authors a share of any training license fees, or a share of the income from anything produced by bots that are trained on our work.

Indeed, as publishing boiled itself down from the thirty-some mid-sized publishers that flourished when I was a baby writer into the Big Five that dominate the field today, their contracts have gotten notably, materially worse for writers:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gander-sauce/#just-because-youre-on-their-side-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-on-your-side