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Advocacy - The Authors Guild
Pillars of Our Mission Learn where we stand on core issues affecting writers. Copyright We are dedicated to preserving effective copyright protection so authors can make a living writing. Learn More F...
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Learn what we're doing about AI:
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Join us to stop book banning:
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If you already know how to register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office, the importance of retaining copyright ownership, how to get your rights back when a book is out of print, and what constitutes fair use… this webinar is NOT for you!!
But for everyone else please join us Thursday!
But for everyone else please join us Thursday!
Must-Know Copyright Basics for Authors - The Authors Guild
Copyright law is the foundation for authors’ ability to get paid for their work. Your copyright is perhaps your most valuable asset as a working writer, so it behooves all writers to understand the in...
authorsguild.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If you already know how to register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office, the importance of retaining copyright ownership, how to get your rights back when a book is out of print, and what constitutes fair use… this webinar is NOT for you!!
But for everyone else please join us Thursday!
But for everyone else please join us Thursday!
“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
Specialty Bookstores are the Future of Publishing
Get Bigger by Going Smaller
dearheadofmine.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
“The successful reinstatement of eight books originally banned from the competition isn’t about how the news spread beyond Georgia and led to the change of heart. It’s a story of how several high school students worked to raise awareness”
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“The successful reinstatement of eight books originally banned from the competition isn’t about how the news spread beyond Georgia and led to the change of heart. It’s a story of how several high school students worked to raise awareness”
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Did you know yesterday was National STEM Day!? It turns out many of our favorite authors are secret STEM nerds.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Did you know yesterday was National STEM Day!? It turns out many of our favorite authors are secret STEM nerds.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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THEY KEPT A LIST. VOTERS KEPT RECEIPTS.
Election Day 2025: Voters Consistently Rejected Book Restrictions in School Board Races - The Authors Guild
While book challenges reached historic highs in 2024 and 2025, voters responded decisively. Beginning with pivotal Texas school board races in May and continuing nationwide through November, voters re...
authorsguild.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
THEY KEPT A LIST. VOTERS KEPT RECEIPTS.
"The way that we stand out from other booksellers and indie bookstores is by offering these special, unique titles that are not available or in distribution elsewhere in this country," she said. Los Amigos has not imported any books into the U.S. since April.
Chicago Indies Pivot As Federal Agents Drive Away Customers
Several indies in Chicago that sell Spanish-language titles and bilingual editions report that the deployment of Federal agents to the Windy City is negatively impacting them.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"The way that we stand out from other booksellers and indie bookstores is by offering these special, unique titles that are not available or in distribution elsewhere in this country," she said. Los Amigos has not imported any books into the U.S. since April.
🗣️ Don’t forget to sign up for our Banned Books Club on Fable! Up this month is George M. Johnson’s deeply personal essay collection, “All Boys Aren’t Blue”—or get started on next month’s book, George Orwell’s “1984.” Hope to see you there!
Register for free:
Register for free:
The Authors Guild Banned Books Club - The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild Banned Books Club is a free virtual book club on the Fable social reading app. Each month, the Banned Books Club presents a different work of fiction or nonfiction recently barred in...
authorsguild.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🗣️ Don’t forget to sign up for our Banned Books Club on Fable! Up this month is George M. Johnson’s deeply personal essay collection, “All Boys Aren’t Blue”—or get started on next month’s book, George Orwell’s “1984.” Hope to see you there!
Register for free:
Register for free:
From our friends over at @404media.co, a look at the closure of Baker & Taylor and the ripple effect it’s been having on libraries:
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From our friends over at @404media.co, a look at the closure of Baker & Taylor and the ripple effect it’s been having on libraries:
News you can actually use: our friends over at Chill Subs ran the numbers on lit mag response times.
What do you think the average wait time is?
What do you think the average wait time is?
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
News you can actually use: our friends over at Chill Subs ran the numbers on lit mag response times.
What do you think the average wait time is?
What do you think the average wait time is?
"The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging."
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
lithub.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging."
When Banned Books Week itself is banned, does it even make a sound?
A round-up of all the censorship, self-censorship and more around the country: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
A round-up of all the censorship, self-censorship and more around the country: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
The Banning of Banned Books Week: Book Censorship News, October 31, 2025
Banned Books Week is being quietly banned in public libraries across the US. This is a political choice in an era where libraries continue to claim being "not political."
bookriot.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When Banned Books Week itself is banned, does it even make a sound?
A round-up of all the censorship, self-censorship and more around the country: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
A round-up of all the censorship, self-censorship and more around the country: bookriot.com/banning-bann...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Getting real with the King of horror this Halloween 👻
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Getting real with the King of horror this Halloween 👻
"Betts started writing every day and reading anything he could get his hands on. Books transformed him, he says, revealing that other ways of living were possible."
A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries.
Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"Betts started writing every day and reading anything he could get his hands on. Books transformed him, he says, revealing that other ways of living were possible."
Incredible news from a coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation—this is going to benefit so many authors.
Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Incredible news from a coalition of seven charitable organizations led by the Mellon Foundation—this is going to benefit so many authors.
There’s something about a literary fall 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
There’s something about a literary fall 🍁
Want to hear a scary story? It’s about an author who didn’t register their copyright and had no recourse when someone infringed on their work!! ☠️
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Want to hear a scary story? It’s about an author who didn’t register their copyright and had no recourse when someone infringed on their work!! ☠️
An author running social media for a writers advocacy organization decides to make a roundup of their favorite author-as-protagonist books 📚
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
An author running social media for a writers advocacy organization decides to make a roundup of their favorite author-as-protagonist books 📚
"I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being 'lower than a worm.' A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. [...] I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up."
Via: countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Via: countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
countercraft.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being 'lower than a worm.' A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. [...] I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up."
Via: countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Via: countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
“I think it would probably behoove you to accept that you’re going to have phases like that… But second of all, try to figure out what inspires you or what inspired you in the first place and go back to that.” thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmm...
Filmmaker Bing Liu on trying things over and over again – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker Bing Liu discusses the power of making things, creating intuitively, and the importance of continuously trying to be engaged.
thecreativeindependent.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“I think it would probably behoove you to accept that you’re going to have phases like that… But second of all, try to figure out what inspires you or what inspired you in the first place and go back to that.” thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmm...
🚨This case will help define whether copyright law can adapt to the realities of the internet age
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨This case will help define whether copyright law can adapt to the realities of the internet age
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October 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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🚨 We have secured a decisive victory against the READER Act, Texas’s controversial book rating mandate
To learn more about the case: authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
To learn more about the case: authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨 We have secured a decisive victory against the READER Act, Texas’s controversial book rating mandate
To learn more about the case: authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
To learn more about the case: authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
🚨 Texas just lost — AGAIN — trying to ban books from schools. A federal judge has permanently blocked the READER Act for violating the First Amendment.
Here's why this matters 🧵
authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
Here's why this matters 🧵
authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
Authors Guild Victory: Plaintiffs Prevail as Judge Rules READER Act Violated First Amendment - The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild, together with booksellers, publishers, and fellow advocacy organizations, has secured a decisive victory on summary judgement against Texas’s controversial book rating mandate. On O...
authorsguild.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨 Texas just lost — AGAIN — trying to ban books from schools. A federal judge has permanently blocked the READER Act for violating the First Amendment.
Here's why this matters 🧵
authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...
Here's why this matters 🧵
authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...