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• The Wrong Side by R. S. Breed

  Book Talk · 1 day ago

  Stranded deep in the far pocket, the crew of the Endurance learns what their first choices actually bought them — and who, aboard their own hull, was never quite who they claimed to be. The story they were told about the enemy does not surv...

• Dead Reckoning by R. S. Breed

  Book Talk · 1 day ago

  Months out into an uncharted region, the survey ship Endurance loses her captain to sabotage and every link to home in the same hour — no relay, no charted lane, no line back. Command falls by emergency authority to a Geneva diplomat who ha...

• The Closing Sky by R. S. Breed

  Book Talk · 1 day ago

  Nora Vale proved that concentrated corridor use is killing the sky. Earth answered by putting the throat of the Sable road under guns. Priority now belongs to defence, to licensed freight, and to the systems judged essential to civilisation...

• The Widened Road by R. S. Breed

  Book Talk · 1 day ago

  Eighteen months after the Dawnward opened the Sable Reach, the blank edge of the map has become a licensed corridor crowded with freight. Rook returns aboard in Survey grey, the first of his people to hold an Earth commission. Nora Vale ret...

• Wide Sky by R. S. Breed

  Book Talk · 1 day ago

  Jae Wells has earned her first berth aboard the NV Dawnward, a civilian survey ship bound for the blank edge of the map. To her it is the best job alive: a competent crew, an untouched reach, and the chance to make the first true marks in a...

• Tapas is closing. Another reminder not to keep your work in one place

  Writing & Publishing · 6 days ago

  Anime News Network reported on the 22nd that Kakao Entertainment plans to shut down Tapas. No end date has been given yet. Kakao is due to give publishers and rights holders the details. https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-22/kakao-en...

• Looking for a book like...? Ask here

  Readers' Corner · 6 days ago

  Finished something you loved and want more of the same? Ask here, and let other readers point you somewhere new. The more specific you are, the better the answers. "Something like X" is a start. "Something like X, because of the slow-burn r...

• The best indie book you've read that nobody's talking about

  Readers' Corner · 1 week ago

  Bestseller lists are good at telling you what everyone's already reading. They're terrible at telling you about the book with forty ratings that you still think about months later. So: what's yours? The rules, such as they are: - **An indie...

• KDP now limits new titles to 2 per format per week

  Industry News · 1 week ago

  KDP's help page on title limits changed on 21 September. The new limit is **2 new titles per format per week**, down from 10 per format a week. https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201857950 The key details: - **2 per format.** The page...

• Tropes you'll always pick up, and ones you'll never touch

  Readers' Corner · 1 week ago

  Everyone has a trope that gets them every time. Put "found family" on a cover and I'm reading it, whatever else is going on. And everyone has one that makes them put a book straight back. For some people it's a love triangle. For others it'...

• Judgments of $75k and $190k in Love v. Wiley Book Writers

  Industry News · 1 week ago

  Writer Beware has a post up from the 18th on Love v. Wiley Book Writers, a case that has resulted in two judgments: https://writerbeware.blog/2026/09/18/love-v-wiley-book-writers-a-publishing-scam-gets-a-rare-comeuppance/ According to Write...

• Readers, do you care whether AI was used to write a book?

  Readers' Corner · 2 weeks ago

  Fortune reported on the 14th on a study by researchers at Stony Brook and the University of Michigan. Of 14,419 self-published genre-fiction books sold on Amazon between 2023 and 2026, about 20% had "substantial" AI text, meaning more than...

• Anthropic settlement notices are out. Check whether your publisher claimed your share

  Industry News · 3 weeks ago

  Allocation notices for the Anthropic settlement have gone out, and Writer Beware reported on the 4th that some publishers are filing incorrect claims on the author's share of the payout. https://writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/anthropic-copyri...

• KDP ebook pre-orders can now be set up to 18 months ahead

  Industry News · 4 weeks ago

  KDP's pre-order help page now says: - Ebook pre-orders created on or after 2 September can be set up to **18 months** before release. - Miss a release date once and you get a one-time pass. Miss one **again** and you lose pre-order privileg...

• Writer Beware warns of fake production companies and agents, now in German too

  Scam Alerts · 1 month ago

  Writer Beware posted on the 28th about fake production companies and fake agents targeting authors, plus examples of the same tactics in German aimed at German-language authors. Writing in another language won't protect you. https://writerb...

• Burnout, pacing, and why the rapid-release crowd isn't your benchmark

  Writing & Publishing · 1 month ago

  A lot of indie advice is written by, or borrowed from, the small group of authors releasing a book every month or two. It works for them. It's also the fastest route to burning out for almost everyone else, and some people who burn out stop...

• Scammers are using lookalike domains to pose as real literary agencies

  Scam Alerts · 1 month ago

  The Authors Guild put out an alert on 20 August about impersonation scams that are getting harder to spot. One of its examples: an email posing as a real literary agent, sent from a web domain that looks like the agency's but isn't. https:/...

• July KENP rate is $0.004221, lowest since January

  Industry News · 1 month ago

  Written Word Media has the July Kindle Unlimited per-page rate up: **$0.004221**, down from $0.004615 in June. https://writtenwordmedia.com/kdp-global-fund-payouts/ That's a drop of about 8.5% month on month, and the lowest since January ($...

• Readers, when do you give up on a series?

  Readers' Corner · 1 month ago

  Authors get told to write in series because readers like them. But I suspect readers also drop series all the time, and nobody tells the author why. So, readers: when do you give up? Is it a number? Does book six feel like a chore no matter...

• Using AI in your writing, and what you should disclose

  Writing & Publishing · 2 months ago

  Threads about AI in writing usually turn into a shouting match between "never touch it" and "everyone uses it, get over it". I'm not going to tell anyone which side to be on. But whatever you decide, you need to be clear with yourself about...