Your 2018 Writing Resolutions For a variety of political and societal reasons, authors have been coming… Mercy Pilkington29 December 20170 Comments1 minute read
Bookstores Are Dying…And It’s Certainly Taking Them Long Enough Facetiously speaking, it took an estimated four minutes from the launch of… Mercy Pilkington29 December 20170 Comments2 minute read
Full Milo Yiannopolous Manuscript Released With Editor’s Comments Milo Yiannopolous has made waves for years, but more recently, he made… Mercy Pilkington28 December 201711 Comments2 minute read
Amazon Unveils This Year In Books Amazon Charts, launched earlier this year, is a fun way to get… Mercy Pilkington15 December 20171 Comment2 minute read
Kindle Create Available to All Authors Back in the spring, Amazon launched a beta test of a new… Mercy Pilkington4 December 20170 Comments2 minute read
Authors Asked, Goodreads Listened: Kindle eBook Giveaways Are Here Indie authors have fought for years to be considered “real authors” by… Mercy Pilkington29 November 20171 Comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches New Imprint Original Stories Like many other traditional publishers, Amazon Publishing has multiple imprints under its… Mercy Pilkington28 November 20171 Comment1 minute read
Amazon’s Cyber Monday Steals Include Books Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos made news over the weekend for being the… Mercy Pilkington26 November 20170 Comments1 minute read
B&N Black Friday Book Shopping Just in time for your Black Friday book-gift giving, Barnes and Noble… Mercy Pilkington23 November 20171 Comment7 minute read
New Children’s Book on Palestine Raising Reader Fury Readers in New York City are up in arms over a new… Mercy Pilkington23 November 20170 Comments2 minute read
New eBook Platform Solves Promo Problems As reading consumers, we’ve gone from having no digital content to have… Mercy Pilkington20 November 20171 Comment2 minute read
Amazon Announces Writing Grant There’s little doubt that Amazon has made a significant amount of money… Mercy Pilkington15 November 20170 Comments1 minute read
Amazon Selects Non-Fiction Title as Best Book of the Year Just ahead of the holidays, Amazon has released its annual Best Books… Mercy Pilkington13 November 20171 Comment2 minute read
Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Closes Its Doors Yet another self-publishing service has closed its doors, but in the case… Mercy Pilkington7 November 20171 Comment2 minute read
Turns Out Piracy ISN’T Good for Authors…Or Readers In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award,… Mercy Pilkington7 November 20176 Comments2 minute read
It’s Not Too Late to NaNo If you’re connected to any writers on social media, your timelines are… Mercy Pilkington6 November 20170 Comments2 minute read
It’s NaNo Time Again… Ordinary folks may be stringing a few more fake cobwebs around the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 20171 Comment2 minute read
Pottermore Goes Physical with Art The beloved fan site Pottermore announced this week that it’s bringing the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 20170 Comments1 minute read
Colin Kaepernick Signs $1M Book Deal with Random House Score one for the good guys… Page Six has just announced that… Mercy Pilkington26 October 201710 Comments2 minute read
Amazon Updates Its Kindle App It’s been roughly ten years since Amazon launched its Kindle app for… Mercy Pilkington24 October 20172 Comments2 minute read
Students Still Don’t Interact with Digital as Effectively as Print The era of the digital native still hasn’t morphed to include education,… Mercy Pilkington23 October 20172 Comments2 minute read
CreateSpace Is Closing Its Online Bookstore Amazon owns CreateSpace, the print-on-demand solution that allows indie authors to produce… Mercy Pilkington12 October 20177 Comments2 minute read
New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs If there was still doubt in anyone’s mind that self-publishing is not… Mercy Pilkington12 October 20171 Comment1 minute read
