Public 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.
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Book WritingBook Publishers Day
Book Publishers Day is January 16. What publishers actually do, how self-publishing changed everything, and the hard lesson about platform dependence.
AI CopyrightCopyright 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.
AprilWorld 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 WritingNational Nonfiction Day
National Nonfiction Day is the first Thursday in November. Why nonfiction matters, what makes it good, and why the best reason to write it is not sales.
AprilIndependent 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 WritingNaNoWriMo Is Gone. The November Writing Challenge Is Not
NaNoWriMo shut down, but the November writing challenge lives on. Why writing a book in a month works, and how to actually finish one this year.
AprilInternational 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 WritingBanned 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.
AudiobookAudiobook 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 WritingGhostwriting a Nonfiction Book: Extraction, Structure, Voice
Ghostwriting a nonfiction book is a craft of extraction and structure. The author has the knowledge; the work is drawing it out in their own voice.
Book WritingYou Have More Material Than You Think. You Are Just Not Counting It.
Almost everybody who tells me they have no stories tells me three in the next ten minutes. They do not count them because nothing dramatic happened.