Book HolidaysPublic Domain Day
Public Domain Day is January 1. Why copyright expires, what it means when a work belongs to everyone, and why writers should care about both ends of it.
Category: Book Holidays
Holidays celebrating books themselves: their history, their authors, and their place in our lives, observed by a writer with more than 113 books published under his own name.
Book Holidays
Book HolidaysCopyright Law Day
Copyright Law Day is January 1. What copyright actually does, the key thing most writers get wrong, and why it matters more than ever in the age of AI.
Book HolidaysBook Publishers Day
Book Publishers Day is January 16. What publishers actually do, how self-publishing changed everything, and the hard lesson about platform dependence.
Book HolidaysWorld Book and Copyright Day
World Book and Copyright Day is April 23. It celebrates books and the copyright that protects them. What every author should know about the rights they own.
Book HolidaysBanned Books Week
Banned Books Week is late September. A personal story about being denied The Grapes of Wrath in high school, and why the fight over reading still matters.
Book HolidaysAudiobook Appreciation Month
Audiobook Appreciation Month is June. How swapping useless screen time for audiobooks turns dead time into reading time, from a thousand-book collector.
Book HolidaysInternational Children’s Book Day
International Children's Book Day is April 2. Why children's books are so hard to write, how young adult differs, and how one writer got his start.
Book HolidaysIndependent Bookstore Day
Independent Bookstore Day is the last Saturday in April. Why indie and used bookstores matter, why they are fading, and why one writer still seeks them out.
Book HolidaysPaperback Book Day: Why Physical Books Still Matter to Writers
July 30 is Paperback Book Day. A 113-book author on why paperbacks changed publishing and why physical books still matter.
Book HolidaysNational Coloring Book Day: A Publisher’s Perspective on the Art Form
A publisher of 20 coloring books on what makes them work, why adults need them, and how real dancers became line art.