I published my newest novel, Haven Lake, in April, and I have another book scheduled for publication in October. Yesterday, I started a new manuscript--my fifth book under contract with NAL/Penguin Random House. I have experienced more success as...

Amazon Has Discovered The Magic Formula To Monetize Direct Publishing

When Amazon.com Inc launched a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited that offers all-you-can-read e-books and audiobooks for $9.99 per month twelve months ago, the strategy was expected to be a long shot. Previous e-book subscription servi...

The Grand Conspiracy Against Publishing Your Book

Here's what I believed when I was trying to get my first publishing deal: There is a cabal of writers and publishers purposefully keeping me out. Every successful writer is part of this cabal. They know who I am and they hate what I write because i...

Adobe Earnings Preview: Cloud Growth In Focus Yet Again

Adobe's core cloud business continued to deliver results as cloud adoption remained robust across both its Creative Cloud offering and its marketing solutions. For Q2, we believe the growth trend in cloud adoption continued, which likely drove revenu...

For One Year, This Publisher Will Only Release Books By Women

In 2014, only 27 percent of authors represented in The Times Literary Supplement were women, only 40 percent from The Paris Review, only 29 percent from The Nation. These numbers are courtesy of the annual VIDA count, an effort to shed light on gende...

Top Seven Coolest Secrets of the Secret Service

I take people inside the White House. That's my job. As a thriller writer, I've taken readers into the private quarters of the First Family, the hidden staircase and secret door that the President can take up to the top floor, and even the secret t...

Want to make huge profits in publishing? Publish research

Think it's hard to make money in publishing in the digital age? Academic publishers are making bigger profits than ever, at the expense of universities, taxpayers and students, researchers say. ...

5 Steps For Maximizing LinkedIn's Blogging Feature For Personal Branding

LinkedIn has made long form publishing available to all members. It's a significant step in transforming the profile from an online resume into a comprehensive personal branding platform.

We Are All Neoliberals Now: The New Genre of Plastic Realism in American Fiction

That's when he [Scotty] began singing the songs he'd been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them--"Eyes in My Head," "X's and O's," "Who's Watching Hardest"--ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from...