Very pleased to have this essay made the first in a new “Dealbreaker” series at Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin’s terrific new quarterly Scratch — to which I hope you’ll subscribe. This piece is in the “Community” section, not behind the paywall, and you can read it free along with other sample posts at the site.… Read More
‘We Demand Parity’: Labor Unrest Among Amazon’s Authors
“Self-Published Authors Have Never Had a Level Playing Field On Amazon” If I were writing a television newscast script for an anchor on a US network right now, the first line of this story would be: Has Amazon finally gone too far? Fortunately, I’m not writing for the crowd that enjoys the network TV cliché-fest because… Read More
The Muse’s Town Hall: Jane Friedman on Literary in Digital Times
Jane Friedman: “Thoughtful, intelligent ‘literary’ work is doing quite well digitally if you step away from book-length or novel publishing and into journalism-driven or nonfiction-driven publishing…I wish there were a community aspect to it (maybe there will be), which the literary world needs. Where’s the literary person’s version of Wattpad? Does that even make sense? I’m… Read More