Jane Friedman

JANUARY 14, 2025

Photo by Google DeepMind Todays post is by author, filmmaker, and podcaster Elizabeth Rynecki. Through a quirk of fate, I avoided the dreaded first-book comedown that often follows the publication of a debut work. The feeling of having poured everything into a single personal project and then wondering, whats next? never quite hit me.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 14, 2025

Doug Putman, owner of music retailer HMV UK, is launching a publishing company. The first imprint will publish music and pop culture books. This premium article is available to paid subscribers of Jane's newsletter.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 21, 2023

This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. I put it all together… did some final edits… and then uploaded the text and cover art to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing site, using a pen name, Nick Tapvana. The book was published on Sunday evening. Honestly, it’s incredibly good.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

You can’t publish it like this. You cant publish it like this. You can’t publish it like this. To celebrate, you pour yourself a glass of wine, before going to bed. Editing is for tomorrow. But when you read your draft again … You feel disappointed. Your writing sounds bland. What happened? They always do.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 9, 2025

While concerned about AI's impact on publishing economics and discoverability, Keith Riegert remains optimistic about the enduring value of human-created content in an increasingly digital world. This premium article is available to paid subscribers of Jane's newsletter. Login below, or learn more and subscribe.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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Daily Writing Tips

MARCH 12, 2025

You can publish your book in as little as a few weeks with self-publishing or as long as two years with traditional publishing, depending on your preparation and chosen path. Publishing a book is like embarking on a journey with multiple routes to your destination. What factors determine the speed of book publishing?

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Blogging From Paradise

JUNE 11, 2025

About Store Blog Courses Do You Fear Smashing the Publish Button? I never could establish that connection unless I published blog posts. I tapped the “publish” button. Legions of bloggers fear tapping the “publish” button. How can you make a typo if you never publish the post for human consumption?

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The publishing landscape is complicated! Especially when we are first starting out, we need someone to distill that publishing landscape for us. If you are submitting a full book without an agent, you will likely be looking for small, independent publishers. We want a resource that is dependable, consistent, and navigable.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today’s post is by Elizabeth Held, who publishes the newsletter What To Read If on Substack. When I mentioned to Christine Larson, author of Love in the Time of Self-Publishing , that more than a dozen romance writers had donated to an auction to help my neighborhood bookstore make repairs from flood damage, she immediately lit up.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The editor who took over, more interested in publishing nonfiction than fiction, politely passed. Published by Akashic Books, part of their Noir series, Denver Noir was the best group project I ever did. Herein lies a disconnect between what big publishers want and what many authors want. So, I decided to forge a new path.

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The Idea Logical Company

MAY 8, 2024

My insight into the commercial world of book publishing is no longer informed by daily contact with people making their living in it. I was gifted an advance reading copy that tells me the book will be published on July 2, 2024.) Before the Erie Canal, publishers were distributed among Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 16, 2025

These subscription services have built a meaningful fanbase and may understand and serve specific readerships better than some publishers. This premium article is available to paid subscribers of Jane's newsletter. Login below, or learn more and subscribe. Wondering why some content isn't free? Did something change? Here's an explanation.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Are you looking to publish three blogs a month? Establishing a Working Relationship Hiring doesn’t stop at signing a contract. Collaboration is critical to long-term success. Setting Clear Goals Clearly define your expectations from the beginning. Do you need keyword-specific SEO content?

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 11, 2025

Many writers hold impossible standards, comparing their messy manuscripts to polished, published books. Remember that even those published works were likely declared “good enough” by their authors, not “perfect.” Several psychological factors are at play: 1. Perfectionism Perfect is the enemy of finished.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Authors who understand tech tools can align their work seamlessly with digital frameworks—platforms like EdApp detail content authors’ technical roles, such as publishing courseware or managing digital paths. Types of Content Authors Content authors come in various formats, depending on their work arrangements and specialties.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 1, 2025

I was editing my third novel, Finding Imogene , on August 7, 2023, when the news broke that publishing-industry guru and nonfiction author Jane Friedmans name had been stolen and plastered across AI-generated books on Amazon and Goodreads. Before I became an author-publisher in 2018, I was a C-level executive assistant. Then I waited.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 7, 2025

There are good reasons for these long-standing publishing traditions. If there are more than 30 chapters, publishers often choose to begin chapters left or right in order to avoid having too many blank pages in the book and adding unnecessarily to the page count and printing cost.

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Arrant Pedantry

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

”) Inside, you’ll find new guidance on inclusive language, electronic publishing, self-publishing, editing fiction, AI, new media, and more. He has served as principal reviser of the last three editions of the Manual , including the newly published 18th. His responses are below.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 11, 2025

So I rushed to fill it, focusing all my energy on getting the book to market quickly, publishing myself. Once it was published, I started the hard work I had deferred: sharing the ideas, blogging, speaking, defending the framework, and learning from others. The gap in the market looked glaringly obvious to me.

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Melanie Saxton

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The goal should be to publish a book that resonates naturally with human readers. I help authors add realism and emotional depth to manuscripts so they can publish books that are more human-centric. If your manuscript was generated through an AI platform, chances are its passages can be rephrased and enhanced.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 22, 2025

Very few, if any, published books are written in isolation. Big goals like multi-book publishing deals (a girl can dream!) Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash Todays post is by romance author and book coach Trisha Jenn Loehr ( @trishajennreads ). The myth of the solo writer is persistent, yet we all crave community.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 27, 2025

Most people who want to write a book are so caught up in the challenge of writing that they dont spend much time thinking about the many things they will likely have to spend money on as they move from idea to published book to promotions. In this article, I identify four main areas where you can spend money on your book.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 18, 2025

While a good chunk of the first edition remains relevant and valid for writers, especially the guidance on book publishing, the sections that address digital media and publishing, magazine publishing, and social media are sorely out of date. More book publishing and book marketing information. Cant afford the book?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 16, 2025

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk Todays post is excerpted from From Pitch to Print: The Nonfiction Writers 10-Step Plan to Getting Published by Dr. Jennifer Dorsey. Bookshop Amazon Many authors I work with are often surprised to find that marketing for their book actually begins well in advance of finding a publishing path.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 10, 2025

I was too focused on the fact that I’d just pretended to be a real writer out loud, in public, in front of someone who I’d just learned had actually published books. But even now, with a published book under my belt, it still feels a little vulnerable. I don’t remember the rest of the conversation. But I sure do.

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Backlinko

JULY 26, 2024

The typical length of a blog post is 1427 words ( Orbit Media ) 61% of bloggers typically publish content between 500 and 1500 words long. Only 14% of blogs typically publish 2000+ word posts ( Orbit Media ) Nearly half (47%) of bloggers publish every week or multiple times per month.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 24, 2025

A 2010 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that participants orientated themselves nearly exclusively on the spoken accent while categorizing people, with accent perception affecting key cognitive processes including memory and social categorization.

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Backlinko

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Sign up and I’ll email to let you know about my favorite piece of content we’ve published each week. You’ll know by now that we only hit publish on a piece of content if we think it’s the best article on its topic on the internet. She published a weekly newsletter on the latest SEO news for a decade.

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press.   I was blown away: Within a week of publishing this first press release, we saw our web traffic increase by 220 percent.

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ContentWriters

JANUARY 30, 2025

Check the publisher: Are they a government agency or a professional institution? gov) websites Fact-checked news domains Industry-leading blogs and publishers For example, if youre writing an article about a specific medical condition, look for websites connected to research websites that include medical publications.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 29, 2025

And after almost fifteen years in publishing, I truly believe in the saying, A rising tide lifts all boats. Become a fan The best comparative titles are typically by authors who are contemporary (published in the last few years) and not celebrities (unless you are too!). But most readers dont buy just one book.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They also publish poetry. They publish both shorter features (300-600 words) and full-length stories up to 1,500 words. They publish articles that highlight particular authors, artists, and ministries; reviews of newly published books, music, or movies; and in-depth feature stories of up to 2,600 words. word and up 2.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

  We poured over millions of posts, Reels, Tweets, TikToks, Shorts, videos, and more to pinpoint when the best-performing content was published.    Post recency  (how recently you published your content) is one of them. To predict the best times to post on TikTok and YouTube, we looked at reach and video views.

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Make a Living Writing

JUNE 13, 2025

Magazines like Reader’s Digest and sites like Cracked still publish humorous content. Publishers like The Funny Times or Cracked often accept submissions from freelance writers. The Funny Times Ray Lesser and Susan Wolpert have spent over 30 years publishing laughs in The Funny Times —no ads, just pure humor.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Even when a publisher accepts a longer book or asks for more content, theyre rarely interested in more backstory. For example, when one of my clients was awarded an extra 10,000 words for her manuscript, the publisher wanted more at the endnot the middle.

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Backlinko

APRIL 7, 2025

We aim for every article we publish to meet or exceed Google’s helpful content standards. Use it before hitting publish to ensure your content meets Google’s quality standards. They also published detailed explanations of how they weigh different factors in their rating system. And ranks for more than 3.2K

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