Category: Newsletter
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The Paranoid Writer’s Guide to AI: Part two
Nigel George is an educator and author of five books on technology and self-publishing. In the second instalment of his series on AI tools, Nigel examines the opportunities and challenges new natural-language AIs present to writers. Challenges and opportunities for writers In part one of this three-part series, I stepped back from the high-tech and…
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New survey finds self-published author income increasing
A world first survey of more than 2200 authors from across the world has found that self-published authors earn more than writers with publishers. Conducted by UK-based organisation the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the Independent Author Income Survey found that average incomes for independent authors are on the rise. The survey found that in 2022,…
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April’s Independent Publishing newsletter
Welcome to the April issue of Books+Publishing’s monthly Independent Publishing newsletter. This month I’m welcoming our new columnist Nigel George to the newsletter. In his first article, published below, Nige turns his eye to what is very much the issue of the day: AI. With his background as a ‘tech head’, Nige explains what AI is and isn’t,…
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The Paranoid Writer’s Guide to AI: Part one
Nigel George is an educator and author of five books on technology and self-publishing. In the first instalment of his series on AI tools, Nige reframes what it is these ‘dumb machines’ are—including what they are and are not capable of doing—to help demystify what roles AI could play in the publishing process. ‘Artificial Intelligence’…
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Latest publishing news
2023 UK Selfies Award winners In the UK, trade publication Book Brunch announced the winners of the Selfies Book Awards, which recognise the best self-published adult fiction, children’s and memoir and autobiography titles, at an event at the London Book Fair. Halima Khatun won the adult fiction category for The Secret Diary of a Bengali…
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From the ASA’s Guide to Getting Published: What makes a book sell?
Last month, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) launched the ASA’s Guide to Getting Published: Understanding and navigating Australia’s book industry, a new book-length resource for Australian writers and illustrators, written by publisher and former ASA CEO Juliet Rogers. The book is pitched as an accessible, easy-to-use guide that will help demystify the publishing industry…
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Terry Whidborne on self-publishing his illustrated book ‘Tasmanian Faeries’
Terry Whidborne is the author and illustrator of Tasmanian Faeries, an illustrated hardback book that gathers ‘eye witness’ accounts of faery encounters in Tasmania, as collected by the fictional author Lady Plummage. Whidborne spoke to Independent Publishing about his book, from its genesis as an idea to working on producing the book with Forty South…
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March’s Independent Publishing newsletter
Welcome to the March issue of Books+Publishing’s monthly Independent Publishing newsletter. This month I had the pleasure of speaking with author and artist Terry Whidborne, who self-published his illustrated title Tasmanian Faeries in October last year. Tasmanian Faeries is a gorgeous book and has been selling particularly well in bookshops in Tasmania, so I wanted to pick Terry’s…
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Latest publishing news
‘Grimmish’ removed from NSW Premier’s Literary Awards The novel Grimmish, self-published by author Michael Winkler in 2021 and published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022, has been removed from the shortlist for the Christina Stead prize for fiction in the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. ‘Due to the fact that Grimmish was self-published before it was published at Puncher…
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February’s Independent Publishing newsletter
Welcome to the February issue of Books+Publishing’s monthly Independent Publishing newsletter—the first of 2023. As well as a round-up of some of the big publishing news from the past two months, this month’s newsletter takes a look at the booming industry of audiobooks: David Stokes, founder of author2audio, has written a piece for authors who are considering whether…