Nate Hoffelder
The Author Website Guy
Monday Morning Coffee ? 2 February 2026
by Nate Hoffelder
2 Feb 2026 at 11:45am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Kate McKean explores what to do if publishers aren’t buying your genre (or more specifically, your story/characters) anymore. Victoria Strauss shares two new scams targeting authors. Libro.fm now offers an annual subscription. Anne R Allen has ten tips which will help save you from falling […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 19 January 2026
by Nate Hoffelder
19 Jan 2026 at 10:51am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Bookbub has a great list of news sources for authors. Poet Dylan Thomas is famous for “Do not go gentle into that good night”, but did you know he also plagiarized as many as 2 dozen poems? Writer Beware’s 2025 Year in Review post is […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 12 January 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
12 Jan 2026 at 10:53am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Reuters has a nice overview of the current state of AI piracy lawsuits. Michael Capobianco raises a good point about the Anthropic settlement – for some authors, their publisher will get 50% of the settlement. The Authors Guild has concerns about Amazon’s Ask This Book […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 5 January 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
5 Jan 2026 at 11:09am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The Internet Archive published an overview of what entered the public domain in the USA this past week. Can anyone point me to similar posts for other countries? AI dominated copyright stories last year. Here are 5 plagiarism and copyright stories without it. A ban […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 29 December 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
29 Dec 2025 at 10:57am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. SFWA has published an apology for the way they messed up the announcement of their new policy on LLMs. They have not however removed the rule which said that using writing tools like ProWritingAid’s manuscript evaluator will disqualify your work from winning a Nebula Award. […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 22 December 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
22 Dec 2025 at 10:33am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Highlights of the next Public Domain Day include works by Faulkner and Dashiell Hammett, and also cartoon classics such as Pluto and Betty Boop. Now that Spotify Wrapped includes audiobooks, it offers a snapshot of what everyone was listening to in 2025. Last week SFWA […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 15 December 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
15 Dec 2025 at 10:40am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Amazon now lets you publish ebooks in Persian, Hebrew, and Latin. eReader smartphone cases are an idea whose time has come and gone a decade ago, and now its time has come again. Smashwords is simplifying its royalties. Amazon’s new “ask This Book” Gen-AI powered […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 8 December 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
8 Dec 2025 at 10:49am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. BookFunnel is bringing back ebook signing (what, again?). About a fifth of the peer reviews on papers submitted to an upcoming conference on AI were (probably) AI generated. BookBaby has advice on how an author can track their most profitable sales channel. Bookbub has tips […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 1 December 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
1 Dec 2025 at 10:39am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Robin Phillips raises a point which has bugged me for some time. QR codes never expire (they are as fixed as bar codes) but the service that generated the code for you may decide to intentionally break the connection between the QR code and its […]
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Monday Morning Coffee ? 24 November 2025
by Nate Hoffelder
24 Nov 2025 at 11:06am
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Cloudflare list a piracy case in Japan over pirate manga sites it was hosting. Victoria Strauss reports on 3 publishers who are currently failing to pay royalties (scam or failing businesses, your guess is as good as mine). The Guardian reports on the rise of […]
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