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AI can be a writer’s best ally—or biggest headache. Some authors are using it brilliantly for writing and research, while others are tripping over its blind spots or blurring ethical lines.
Learn from Rebecca Bultsma, nationally recognized speaker, consultant, and AI research expert, alongside your favorite cranky-pants editorial curmudgeon Jeevan, for five sharp lessons on how to make AI work for you—not against you.
Continue Reading Five Ways to Use AI to Aid Your Writing—The Right Way
No one can edit their own book, but there are seven simple strategies for better ensuring you do the right prep to get the best feedback, resulting in a stronger work.
Ever since that childhood debacle with the lemonade stand, there are plenty of nonfiction authors and to-be authors who hate the idea of self-promotion and marketing, so what should they do?
Continue Reading Marketing for Authors (and Authors To-Be) Who Hate Marketing
The number one reason employees stay or leave is how much they trust their immediate supervisor, not company-wide programs or benefits.
Continue Reading Targeting Turnover: A Fresh Ink Interview with Dick Finnegan
Damian Goldvarg’s new book “Lead with a Coaching Mindset” applies the 8 core competencies from the International Coach Federation to leadership. These include: ethical standards, coaching mindset, building relationships, trust, presence, communication (listening), creating awareness, and implementing learning.
Continue Reading How to lead with a coaching mindset: A Fresh Ink interview with Damian Goldvarg
All nonfiction book proposals ask for the same basic bits of information, but what are publishers really looking for? What are the words, commitments, and things that make them sit up and take notice and what makes for a damn good proposal? In this webinar on September 10, 2025, Jeevan Sivasubramaniam (who has reviewed, no…
Continue Reading What Publishers Really Want to See in Your Book Proposal (But Won’t Tell You)
Email gets much higher engagement than any social media site. You own your email list. Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s one of the last link-friendly platforms. Etc.
Continue Reading 8 Reasons Why Email Is Your Most Valuable Marketing Asset
Agents can figure out if your book will sell, refine your proposal, introduce your book to the editors that are the best fit, and help you ensure you get a fair contract. They can’t work miracles.
Is AI the end of book publishing and authors as we know it? This conversation features Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, VP of Editorial at Berrett-Koehler Publishers, and Thad McIlroy, a published author and journalist, founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners, a contributing editor to Publishers Weekly, a board member at Johns Hopkins Press, and the principal of The Future of Publishing.
Continue Reading Threat, Benefit, or Both? What AI Means for Your Book and the Publishing Industry
