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Zeitgeist: Stories Made by People Who Hate Them

Stories made by people who hate them: why faithful adaptations like Epic: The Musical earn billion-stream success while Hollywood’s deconstructed reboots keep failing, and what authors can learn from the pattern.

Amazon Review Purge: The Author Survival Guide

Explore recent publishing news on imprint closures, bestseller challenges, and AI’s influence on the future of books.

The Four Loves That Drive Fiction

Discover the four types of love in fiction that make readers fall in love with your book. Learn how storge, philia, eros, and agape drive stories from cozy mysteries to epic fantasy.

Zeitgeist: Globalists vs. Nationalists: What the UK and Japanese Elections Tell Us About the Changing Culture

Reform UK, Japan’s landslide, and the AfD surge reveal a global culture war. Here’s what the nationalist realignment means for your books and marketing.

Draft2Digital Confirms: Amazon Sales Reports Are Off by 50%

KDP dashboard errors, Chrome’s secret AI install, a Harvard prompting hack, the AI book flood, and how global nationalism is changing what readers want.

15 Rules for Book Advertising with David Gaughran

Learn 15 book advertising tips to help you save money and increase your profits while attracting more readers.

Zeitgeist: First Turning Noblebright vs. Second Turning Grimbright

Thomas and Jonathan map classic films onto the Noble/Grim + Bright/Dark axis, the four-quadrant version of the Strauss-Howe generational turnings.

Audible Forces Every Title Into New Royalty Model

Audible set a hard deadline for its new royalty model. The FTC fined a self-publishing guru $1.5M for fake promises. AI screeners favor AI-polished proposals over human ones. Independent bookstores are booming with 422 new openings. And science confirmed your TikTok breaks are wrecking your writing focus.

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My Worst Takes & Mistakes Over 500 Episodes

Discover advice for authors that has stood the test of time (and always will) and what advice you can cast off like a crumpled first draft.

How I Fight Off Copyright Trolls Targeting My Blogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrM68ayZhSk This article walks through several real-world encounters with copyright trolls targeting my blogs, how their schemes work, and the practical defenses I used to fight them off without paying. It also shows how DMCA...

Reader Magnets Are Dead? Why Most Reader Magnets Fail

Discover strategies to create a good reader magnet that will engage readers and boost your newsletter subscriptions.

How to Get a Professional Email Address

Your email address might be the first thing an agent or editor sees. Learn how to make a good first impression with your email address.

Networking for Authors with Dale L. Roberts

12 tips for networking with other authors to create mutually beneficial, long-term relationships.

Why Most Authors Don’t Need Social Media in 2026

Social media changes so quickly. Find out which platforms and strategies work for selling books in 2022.

A Nonfiction Author’s Guide to Substack

Learn how nonfiction authors are using Substack to reach audiences and convert them into paying subscribers seamlessly.

Thomas’s Office Tour & 4th Wall Breach

Get the much anticipated tour of Thomas’s office, complete with a run-down of the books on his shelves that best absorb sound.

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Publishing

The Four Loves That Drive Fiction

Discover the four types of love in fiction that make readers fall in love with your book. Learn how storge, philia, eros, and agape drive stories from cozy mysteries to epic fantasy.

The Cultural Zeitgeist Shift That’s Making Indie Authors Rich

Discover the cultural shift in zeitgeist that reflects the changing preferences of American readers.

Your Author Toolbox: Part 2

Discover the best tools for writers to streamline your author business, or turn podcasts into optimized blog content with the powerful Novel Marketing Patron Toolbox suite.