Nate Hoffelder
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When I am not building and fixing author websites, I make things like badge ribbons, bookmarks, event badges, and (lately) centerpieces. https://natehoffelder.com/ also: https://x.com/inkbitspixels #actuallyautistic he/him
Nate's Travel Tips: How to get lost stuff back I just finished volunteering at a Small Press Expo, and it taught me a really useful tip. I was stationed at the HQ desk, and I got to see a lot of interesting stuff in the lost and found box, including a half dozen travel mugs, ...
Hey y'all, I've got bills piling up, so if you've got a fiction project you're working on that needs a second set of eyes, why not use mine? No project too big or small. For more info, check out: www.kristianwriting.com/editing-serv... Signal boosts are appreciated. #AmWriting #AmEditing
Weekly News: 7th September 2026 buff.ly/e350OMw
Weekly News: 7th September 2026 - Author Help
Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links: Book a FREE consultation to find out how we can help you publish your book.
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Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blogs Posts of the Week 9/07/26-9/11/26 buff.ly/fGiVz82
Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blogs Posts of the Week 9/07/26-9/11/26 - Publishing Trends
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week.
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Nate’s travel tips: Las Vegas This is a long one. The thing that separates LV from the other cities I’m writing travel tips about is that I lived there for 3 years in the early 1990s, and went there for CES for 4-5 years, and also went back in 2021 for a conference.
Nate's travel trips: Denver! My next trip in a few weeks is going to take me back to Denver. I've only been there for a few hours here and there (I flew in for a conference in Colorado Springs) but I did pick up a few things.
Nate's travel tip: When staying in Norfolk, be sure to pick your hotel based on its location relative to the tunnels in the area. A lot of those tunnels have tolls.
no thanks I aspire to one day being a hoy mess, but right now I am settling for lukewarm.
How did everyone but me end up with more followers than followed when moving over from Twitter?
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If you have any homeless people in your country, it has already decided that death is preferable to care.
she also invented sci fi to explain why it's a bad idea to date Lord Byron
Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.
In an effort to take back my power, I'm going to start playing sports in the womens bathroom.
One week later, I have an official response from #LACon #Worldcon! I thought all of you should see the entire thing: "Summary: Walking participants only Action Taken: Noted by Listeners team Current Status: CLOSED"
Mari Ness, writer of things@mariness.bsky.social · 2w ago....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.
Here are 5 ways to identofy your writing weaknesses. buff.ly/toPAqGz
5 Ways to Identify Your Writing Weaknesses (and Become a Better Writer)
Not sure what's wrong with your writing? Learn 5 ways to identify writing weaknesses, recognize recurring patterns, and strengthen your fiction.
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Morning Coffee - 7 September 2026 www.natehoffelder.com/morning-coff...
Morning Coffee - 7 September 2026 - Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Amazon extended pre-orders in KDP. The limit is now 18 months, but this is only good for new releases. Here are 5 ways to identify your writing weak...
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Here's the latest on the Anthropic AI piracy settlement. buff.ly/DVl5R6D
Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims:…
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I've recently revived my Instagram, Bluesky, and Twitter accounts, and this struck me as a good time to revisit my blog post on social media marketing for authors. buff.ly/0Twf2ji
Nate's Rules of Social Media Marketing - Nate Hoffelder
Everyone tells authors they have to be on social media, but how exactly are you supposed to go about marketing yourself on social media? I am not really sure, but lately I have come to beleive that…
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Libraries under threat (This week in books) buff.ly/OPXRyaB
Libraries under threat (This week in books)
This week! Books! Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries – PEN America – A new report from PEN America details the extent to which libraries are under unprecedented threat due…
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The thing I find most interesting about the new report saying library ebook lending harms sales is that I was hearing the exact same thing 5-6 years ago. www.wordsandmoney.com/publishing-i...
Publishing Industry ‘Study’ Says Digital Library Lending Is Cannibalizing Retail Sales—Librarians Say It Reveals Something Else
AAP and Authors Guild leaders characterized the study as “independent” and “the most rigorous analysis to date” of the shift toward digital lending in U.S. libraries. Librarians say it is neither.
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If you missed the HWA drama, this is a good way to catch up.
Sarah Hans@sarahhans.bsky.social · last wk.The HWA Facebook group has a bunch of posts about it. I can summarize but details will be missing. Basically, an HWA trustee wrote an op-ed in the newsletter that was virulently pro-AI. The membership was not pleased; the board removed the trustee, but the person who volunteered to compile the
@victoriastrauss.com Have you been following the last month's worth of drama from the Horror Writers Association?
Want to hear something I think is really weird? A professional author group (Horror Writers Association) has spent the last month destroying itself in rather messy drama, and no one seems to be covering. I've literally tipped off several people, and no one been interested in the story.
