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Our new feature links to interesting blogs or articles posted online, which will help keep you up to date with what's going on in the book world:
A manifesto on working with authors | The Bookseller
Agatha Christie: genius or hack? Crime writers pass judgment and pick favourites
How Self-Published Authors Can Go Global - Publishing Perspectives
New Guild Survey Reveals Majority of Authors Earn Below Poverty Line
10 Tips to Help Writers Actually Write
The Booker Prize shortlist 2015: the best for years
William Boyd: my advice for budding authors | Books | The Guardian
Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller | MORE Magazine
Flat book cover design: Why do all the summer novels have the same look?
A manifesto for reaching readers | The Bookseller
Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? - The New Yorker
Stieg Larsson's partner ‘casts a spell' to jynx Millennium series book launch | Daily Mail Online
Why Smart Publishers Build Bad Websites | Digital Book World
Interstitial Publishing | The Scholarly Kitchen
Is Amazon Eating Itself Alive? - Publishing Perspectives
Publishing's decline 'leaves writers on breadline' - The Scotsman
Publisher or Author? Whose Job Is it to Innovate Anyway? - Publishing Perspectives
A manifesto for author-publisher relations | The Bookseller
William Boyd: my advice for budding authors | Books | The Guardian
Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? - The New York Times
On Writing, Rejection, and Persistence
How the Tiny Graywolf Press Became a Big Player in Book Publishing
Why Indie Authors Need Writing Communities
We Need Diverse Diverse Books ‹ Literary Hub
Why the Most Famous Agent In Book Publishing Is About to Become a Famous Novelist Too | Vanity Fair
Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write | Comment is free | The Guardian
The Rise of Phone Reading - WSJ
Delhi Tea Seller Finds Success As Author on Amazon - Publishing Perspectives
Can digital community support writing, really? | The Bookseller
When the page is broken: Who writes the books? | The Bookseller
Down, Up, Down Again: The Diary of a Debut Author - Publishing Perspectives
How the Frankfurt Book Fair Helped Launch Shakespeare - Publishing Perspectives
Digital writing: If only community weren't so communal | The Bookseller
Kindle turns five: independent women thrive in ebook bestseller charts | Books | The Guardian
Teymour Shahabi on YouTube for Writers
Why is reading for pleasure important? | Reading Agency
"My Agent By My Side": An Author's Assisted Publishing Experience - Publishing Perspectives
Book Media Amplification is Key to Small Press Success - Publishing Perspectives
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