Here are the podcasts that currently make up my phone’s library. Some offer exclusive content or perks through Patreon, and others are completely free. Some are updated weekly, and others, less often. Many of the podcasts include show notes and automatically generated transcripts, so you can read (rather than listen to) the episodes.
Read MoreWriters and publishers hire sensitivity readers (also called authenticity readers) for a variety of reasons: to review a character whose identity the writer doesn’t share, a scene set in a country they have researched but never visited, or a dialect they’ve studied but never spoken, among other scenarios.
Read MoreMany novelists, especially those who consider themselves literary novelists, are loath to define their genre. Why reduce their work to a label or box? Doesn’t confining oneself in this way impede the very process of creating art? To get a better understanding of what genre is and how much trade book publishing relies on this concept, I spoke with literary agents T.S. Ferguson of Azantian Literary Agency and Laura Zats of Headwater Literary Management.
Read MoreThis list of diversity-focused book publishers or imprints announced between October 2019 and October 2020 serves as a companion piece to the “15 New(is) Diversity-Focused Publishers and Imprints” piece I wrote in June 2019.
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