Book promotion

I've been on the bookish internet for more than 15 years, and in that time, I've watched platforms rise and fall. I remember talking about books on Livejournal, for Sappho's sake. I started a book blog called the Lesbrary in 2011, because I couldn't find an LGBTQ book blog that wasn't 90% M/M books.  Read more

In the 2021 Netflix film "Don't Look Up", two astronomers played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio embark on a media tour to warn the public about an impending comet collision that will doom the planet. The problem: no one really cares. Publishing takes a different approach to such matters. As an industry we assume the sky is falling down, even when it isn't.

The publishing industry has long been teetering on the brink of one crisis or another, whether that's a reckoning around its lack of diversity or its perpetually challenged bottom line. But as the global health crisis unfolded in the spring of 2020, authors and publishers found themselves facing an entirely new dilemma.  Read more

Christine Smallwood's recent novel The Life of the Mind - a bleak, funny tour of academia's outer fringe - offers a lament for the state of email.  Read more

Vaccinations may be increasing at a rapid rate, and many business are reopening to close to pre-pandemic hours, but publishers and booksellers are not in a hurry to resume in-person author tours this spring or summer.  Read more