Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“I have no idea where my book is published.” These are just a few of the comments I’ve heard from authors sharing their experiences with the hybrid publishing companies they’ve chosen to work with. So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. What royalties?

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 21, 2023

This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. I put it all together… did some final edits… and then uploaded the text and cover art to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing site, using a pen name, Nick Tapvana. The book was published on Sunday evening. Honestly, it’s incredibly good.

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Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Have you ever thought a one-on-one conversation with a publishing professional could get you unstuck and move your writing career forward? Maybe you just have a few questions about the querying process or how to get an agent or find a publisher. I offer publishing coaching for any phase of your career, focused on your area of need.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

You can’t publish it like this. You cant publish it like this. You can’t publish it like this. To celebrate, you pour yourself a glass of wine, before going to bed. Editing is for tomorrow. But when you read your draft again … You feel disappointed. Your writing sounds bland. What happened? They always do.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 10, 2024

Book publishing is a New York–centric business, to a fault. All of the major US publishers are based there, as are many literary agents. When I visited Chicago this past June, I had the opportunity to meet Doug Seibold, the founder of Agate Publishing , established in 2002. Sometimes certain kinds of books are up. Yes and no.

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The Idea Logical Company

MAY 8, 2024

My insight into the commercial world of book publishing is no longer informed by daily contact with people making their living in it. I was gifted an advance reading copy that tells me the book will be published on July 2, 2024.) Before the Erie Canal, publishers were distributed among Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 13, 2024

When I started writing my memoir, my publishing goal was Big Five or nothing. Anyone could self-publish. A New York publishing house sat around a table and debated making an offer on my book?! I never considered that my manuscript would reach 50 editor inboxes and not find a publisher. What were my publishing goals now ?

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The publishing landscape is complicated! Especially when we are first starting out, we need someone to distill that publishing landscape for us. If you are submitting a full book without an agent, you will likely be looking for small, independent publishers. We want a resource that is dependable, consistent, and navigable.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 12, 2024

Securing the services of a literary agent has long been the gold standard for authors pursuing a long and successful career in publishing. At the turn of the twentieth century, the so-called “author’s representative” emerged as the figure who would help authors cut a better deal with publishers. It’s easy to understand why.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 17, 2024

AI-generated image using prompt “book publishing executives receiving lots of money from a technology company.” This week, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced the ability for publishers and other rights holders to include AI training rights as part of licensing arrangements. What is the CCC?

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The editor who took over, more interested in publishing nonfiction than fiction, politely passed. Published by Akashic Books, part of their Noir series, Denver Noir was the best group project I ever did. Herein lies a disconnect between what big publishers want and what many authors want. So, I decided to forge a new path.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its difficult to find someone who wants to publish it. No one wants to spend money on such a little book (whether youre a publisher or a customer). Publishers and agents and literary magazines didnt seem interested in novellas. But I didnt have any connections in the world of literary publishing. And it wasnt easy.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Are you looking to publish three blogs a month? Establishing a Working Relationship Hiring doesn’t stop at signing a contract. Collaboration is critical to long-term success. Setting Clear Goals Clearly define your expectations from the beginning. Do you need keyword-specific SEO content?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2024

Two of these lists focus on self-published books exclusively (print format and ebook format), and a third list looks at both traditionally published books and self-published books (print format), but excludes Big Five publishers and other major houses. Six weeks to publish a book, that is blazingly fast.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Authors who understand tech tools can align their work seamlessly with digital frameworks—platforms like EdApp detail content authors’ technical roles, such as publishing courseware or managing digital paths. Types of Content Authors Content authors come in various formats, depending on their work arrangements and specialties.

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The Idea Logical Company

JUNE 5, 2023

Books usually have prices set by the publisher which determines pretty much what you’re going to pay for it, regardless of where you buy it. My friend Thad McIlroy has written a brilliant piece for PW about the impact of AI like ChatGPT on book publishing. In it, he suggests that it could kill trade publishing.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 11, 2025

So I rushed to fill it, focusing all my energy on getting the book to market quickly, publishing myself. Once it was published, I started the hard work I had deferred: sharing the ideas, blogging, speaking, defending the framework, and learning from others. The gap in the market looked glaringly obvious to me.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Benchmark publishing frequency charts are nice, but they shouldnt be your only research. To help decide how often to publish on multiple channels, develop a strategy with this expert advice. After all, audiences arent homogenous.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 7, 2025

There are good reasons for these long-standing publishing traditions. If there are more than 30 chapters, publishers often choose to begin chapters left or right in order to avoid having too many blank pages in the book and adding unnecessarily to the page count and printing cost.

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Arrant Pedantry

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

”) Inside, you’ll find new guidance on inclusive language, electronic publishing, self-publishing, editing fiction, AI, new media, and more. He has served as principal reviser of the last three editions of the Manual , including the newly published 18th. His responses are below.

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The goal should be to publish a book that resonates naturally with human readers. I help authors add realism and emotional depth to manuscripts so they can publish books that are more human-centric. If your manuscript was generated through an AI platform, chances are its passages can be rephrased and enhanced.

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Ahrefs

AUGUST 27, 2024

In fact, according to Kevin Indig, travel was the fifth largest industry on the web by organic visibility in June 2024. If you want to generate more bookings or get more customers, you will need to do SEO. To write … Read more ›

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 13, 2024

Deliver valuable content experiences beyond your website, but don’t abandon your owned home. Here’s how to revamp your “rented” properties — while maintaining and improving your owned channels.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Was the attack on Rushdie related to the fatwa that the Ayatollah Khomeini had issued when Rushdie published The Satanic Verses thirty plus years ago? He had problems with his partner, with his conduct as a publicist at a major publishing house, with a wider literary scandal, and with a penchant for collecting that turns to hoarding­­.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Even when a publisher accepts a longer book or asks for more content, theyre rarely interested in more backstory. For example, when one of my clients was awarded an extra 10,000 words for her manuscript, the publisher wanted more at the endnot the middle.

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Blogging From Paradise

MARCH 10, 2025

I have learned one clear blogging lesson as a 16 year veteran. There is nothing new under the sun. But if you think […]

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press.   I was blown away: Within a week of publishing this first press release, we saw our web traffic increase by 220 percent.

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ContentWriters

JANUARY 30, 2025

Check the publisher: Are they a government agency or a professional institution? gov) websites Fact-checked news domains Industry-leading blogs and publishers For example, if youre writing an article about a specific medical condition, look for websites connected to research websites that include medical publications.

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Backlinko

JULY 26, 2024

The typical length of a blog post is 1427 words ( Orbit Media ) 61% of bloggers typically publish content between 500 and 1500 words long. Only 14% of blogs typically publish 2000+ word posts ( Orbit Media ) Nearly half (47%) of bloggers publish every week or multiple times per month.

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Backlinko

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Sign up and I’ll email to let you know about my favorite piece of content we’ve published each week. You’ll know by now that we only hit publish on a piece of content if we think it’s the best article on its topic on the internet. She published a weekly newsletter on the latest SEO news for a decade.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

  We poured over millions of posts, Reels, Tweets, TikToks, Shorts, videos, and more to pinpoint when the best-performing content was published.    Post recency  (how recently you published your content) is one of them. To predict the best times to post on TikTok and YouTube, we looked at reach and video views.

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Animalz

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I’m pretty happy if people still talk about one of my articles a few weeks after I hit publish. Kevin Kelly, the legendary founder and editor of WIRED , realized the internet allowed creators* to establish direct relationships with their fans, instead of through intermediaries like publishers and record labels.

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Buffer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Let’s say you have an editorial calendar in Notion where each entry represents a piece of content you’re planning to publish. You can even customize the Zap to only trigger if the entry has a specific tag, like "ready to publish," ensuring your social media stays aligned with your content strategy.

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 30, 2024

JK Rowling claims to have received loads of rejections before finally being published ( source ). Before publishing a blog post, I ask myself 3 simple questions: Is this valuable to you (my readers)? And anyway … who decides what is good enough? Your writing doesn’t define who you are. Is there one clear message?

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Contently

AUGUST 16, 2024

And with laser-targeted audiences, a publishing platform, and a built-in professional network, it’s easy to find LinkedIn marketing examples from brands doing it right. You probably already have awesome content on your own site, and now is the perfect time to share it and extend its reach on LinkedIn’s publishing platform.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Well-chosen anecdotes can also foster a deeper understanding of the topics and messages at the heart of the book and add a memorable aspect that boosts their impact.

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