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An editor has weighed in on the fact-checking debate, asking why "lowly freelancers are being left to clean the Augean stables", in an anonymous comment piece for The Bookseller.

After an action-packed weekend of tearful goodbye videos, "Titanic" memes and one act of arson in protest, TikTok received a stay of execution from President Trump. The newly inaugurated executive signed an executive order to delay, for 75 days, the enforcement of legislation that would ban the platform if it is not sold to an American company.

A recent Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment report on global book sales for the first eight months of the year shows "rising revenues in fiction, while sales of nonfiction books are declining in many regions. The TikTok community BookTok is playing an increasingly important role."

I have been trying to convince writers of the value of a consistent email newsletter for more than a decade. Recently I dug up a 2014 presentation I gave at the James River Writers Conference, where the first slide says, "Email is not dead." After that slide, I quoted novelist Dana Stabenow, who gave an inspirational talk where she couldn't resist offering a practical tip at the end:

This week BookTok creators reflected on how authors fit into the BookTok ecosystem and the new sub-genres surfacing on the platform.