
Backlist Revival: How BookTok Keeps Resurrecting Decades-Old Novels
A 2016 novel selling 308,000 copies in eight months of 2021 broke publishing's assumptions about shelf life. What the backlist boom actually rewards.
Read more →Notes on books, craft, and the writing life — for readers who also write.
Reading and writing are the same obsession with different tools. This section is for the overlap — the craft questions that come up when you’ve read enough to start noticing how books are built, and the practical questions that come up when you decide to build one yourself.
Topics here include writing craft, the business of publishing, where to submit fiction, and what serious readers know that makes them better writers.

A 2016 novel selling 308,000 copies in eight months of 2021 broke publishing's assumptions about shelf life. What the backlist boom actually rewards.
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Cozy fantasy and grimdark look like opposite reactions to the same moment. They are closer than they appear — both are arguments about what fantasy owes its …
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The Swedish Academy names its 2026 laureate on October 8. Why the perennial favourites keep losing, and what recent patterns suggest about who is actually due.
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The biggest YA fantasy sequels landing fall 2026 — returning worlds, release windows, and which continuing series earn your preorder.
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Reading slumps hit every serious reader. Here's what actually causes them and the strategies that work for getting back into books.
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Practical craft advice for writing book reviews — what makes a review useful, and how to avoid the most common failures of the form.
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A practical guide to submitting short fiction — literary magazines, contests, and online venues worth knowing.
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An argument for reading YA fiction as an adult — and why the best YA does things literary fiction is too self-conscious to attempt.
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