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Writing What You Don’t Know: Getting Over the Fear

Editors and authors agree it’s okay to write outside your lived experience, as long as you do your homework.

Hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, If Books Could Kill focuses on “airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.”

In late September, Hobart published an interview with Cuban-American writer Alex Perez, which included some controversial statements.

Hamish McKenzie, one of the founders of Substack, has launched a podcast, Active Voice, “about how great writers reckon with the internet.”

Comparable to the Authors Guild in the United States, the Society of Authors in the UK is the country’s leading union of professional authors.

The White House changed a longstanding US policy, forcing publishers to make publicly funded research available immediately to the public.

Writers can sign up for a casting call for a chance to pitch their book idea to a panel of experts.

A new organization run by and for disabled publishing professionals is set to launch on July 22 at 8 PM Eastern with a virtual town hall.

The show is hosted by Susan Orlean and Hrishikesh Hirway and is a spin-off of the popular show Song Exploder.