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Republishing a Book After a Rights Reversion
By Kwame Eff, Co-Founder of Out of Print Press What are reversions of rights and why do they happen? When a book publisher acquires a title, they are actually acquiring a license to commercially exploit a piece of intellectual property. A reversion of rights occurs when a publisher returns a commercial license to a piece… …read the full article
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The State of Publishing Today
by Greg Ioannou [Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in Editors Toronto February 4, 2026] The message from BoldFace said, “We were wondering if you would consider writing a post about your perspective on the state of publishing today . . .” Starting in 2008 Cool! I gave a keynote presentation about this topic… …read the full article
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Seven Maxims for Writing Historical Fiction
Read more: Seven Maxims for Writing Historical FictionI did not come up with these maxims for the sake of this essay, although this is the first time I have articulated them all at once in this way. My writing is informed by these ideas, and I can see them reflected throughout the works of my heroes and heroines in historical fiction.
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A Short Story About Short Stories
Read more: A Short Story About Short StoriesBy Jonathan R. Rose Starting Out In 2015, my first novel, Carrion, was published by Montag Press. After that, wanting to maintain momentum in my writing career, I turned my attention to short stories. From 2016-2019, I wrote dozens of short stories and had nine of them published. One of those stories was A Night…
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Independent Authors and the New Normal of the Book Business
Read more: Independent Authors and the New Normal of the Book BusinessBy Geoff Micks Website| Books| Bluesky| Audio Drama Podcast In the late-1990s I finished a novel around the same time I finished high school. It was terrible, but I learned from the experience. I finished my second novel as I was finishing university, and it was pretty good. Better than pretty good, really. It was…
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Scott Griffin, Ken Whyte, Michael Redhill, Thomas King: Here’s the tea.
Read more: Scott Griffin, Ken Whyte, Michael Redhill, Thomas King: Here’s the tea.Literary Lampoons. Get the tea here, first.
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Epistles – A Night Out by Jonathan R. Rose
Read more: Epistles – A Night Out by Jonathan R. RoseReview by Kwame Eff *This review contains spoilers. Consider reading the story here first on the author’s Substack, “The Conversation Club”. “You’ll never know what you can learn about a person unless you go out and talk to them,” …says the tagline to A Night Out by Jonathan R. Rose. Jeremy is a single man…
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ARTSTERITY: Nova Scotia Cuts Off Subsidies to Book Publishers
Read more: ARTSTERITY: Nova Scotia Cuts Off Subsidies to Book PublishersAn Open Letter To Author Dalton Higgins By Kwame Eff Dear Dalton, Let me congratulate you on the success of 101 Fascinating Basketball Facts. I was so proud to attend your launch event at A Different Booklist last fall. When our dear elder Itah called on me it felt like something of a return from…
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Review of ‘The Antifa Comic Book (Revised and Expanded)’
Read more: Review of ‘The Antifa Comic Book (Revised and Expanded)’By Frantz Feneon Gord Hill’s Antifa Comic Book was the best-selling title at Camas Books and Infoshop over the past 12 months. Camas Books is an anarchist collective in Victoria, BC.. Gord Hill is an Indigenous (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, a First Nation on northern Vancouver Island) artist and writer who also wrote The 500 Years of Resistance…
