Archive - Notes from a Small Press

Award Ceremonies and a Book Proposal Course

Greetings from Philadelphia, where I joined Darius Stewart, winner of a ALA Stonewall Honor Title for his memoir, Be Not Afraid of My Body, at the…

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Bestseller or Prestige? Willa Cather, cont

Jun 25 •

Sneak Peek: New Books, New Covers

Here’s last week’s post on Common Misconceptions about Publishing, no longer paywalled.

Jun 22 •

Common Misconceptions About Publishing IV

Working on a book proposal?

Jun 16 •

Do You Own The Book You Wrote?

Copyright with Dickens, Twain, Harper, Unions, and our new LLM friends

Jun 9 •

Men, Substack, Novels

My summer book proposal course starts July 7. Feel free to email me with questions if you are interested.

Jun 2 •

May 2025

The Real Money in Books

Who Are The Book Collectors Buying?

May 27 •

Should You Self-Publish?

May 19 •

Copyright, Piracy, Tariffs, and... Patriotism?

Over the weekend, Trump fired the head of the US Copyright office. A few days earlier, Shirla Perlmutter had released a report about AI and fair use.

May 12 •

NEA, rare books, Pulitzers, Sam Adams,

May 6 •

April 2025

Should AI be able to steal books? Are they stealing them?

Unwinding this issue back to the beginning of copyright

Apr 28 •

How will the Trump administration impact publishing?

The third in my unplanned series, following one on how tariffs will impact paper and printing, this time not on tariffs but on how cuts to government…

Apr 20 •

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