Zeitgeist: How SSRIs Change What Women Want to Read
A quarter of American women are on medication that changes their brain chemistry, and it is changing what they want to read.
Amazon Caught Stealing Authors’ Ad Dollars
Amazon sued for overcharging advertisers, AI’s custom romance novels, Mr. Beast and James Patterson’s book bomb, and the anti-AI movement may have its leader.
Zeitgeist: Dolly Parton, Female Sleuths, and Clean Comedy
Zeitgeist shifts evidenced by a unifying entertainer, a clean comedian, and female detective novels.
Get More Time to Write by Using a Grok Bot
Transform your writing process by learning how to create an AI agent for authors that performs tasks while you focus on creativity.
Facebook Advertising Changes Forever… Again
Meta killed the setting that kept ads off Audience Network. Amazon hiked Kindle prices $40 overnight. 63% of religious books may be AI-written.
Will Your Back Matter Get Your Book Banned on Amazon?
Discover the key to effective back matter in books. Learn how to engage readers and enhance your marketing strategy in those final pages.
Zeitgeist: Why AI Writes Better than You: It Reads Aristotle and You Don’t
“AI slop” critics take note: parallel structure and antithesis aren’t AI tics, they’re Aristotle’s rhetoric, still shaping language 2,300 years later.
AI Read Aristotle That’s Why It Writes Better Than You
Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI, an AI-writing tool beats detectors, author AI controversies grow, and Anthropic checks are delayed.
Zeitgeist: Clinical Pluralism: The Writing Technique That Trains Women to Excuse Evil
Jonathan: I’m going to provide some context for what happened this week, which is the genesis of this zeitgeist idea. Lindsay Clancy was in the news, and there was a lot of arguing about it on social media. Allie Beth Stuckey jumped on the story, and it...
Barnes & Noble Just Banned the Front-Table Author Signing Nationwide
For Week Ending August 14, 2026 This week, Barnes & Noble dropped a corporate memo that ends the easy front-table book signing. A copyright lawsuit stretched four years and finished with a $3.4 million fee against the plaintiff. Claude is now stamping an invisible...
Zeitgeist: Why Gen Z Is Abandoning Hip-Hop Radio for Country Music
Discover what the shift in music preferences signals and how to apply it to your writing and marketing.
AI Fiction Seizes 27.5% of KDP’s Genre Catalog
Libro.fm expands ebooks to 5,000 indie stores, while AI disrupts a $2 million book auction. HarperCollins grows 15%, Fable reaches 5 million users, and AI fiction nears 30% of Amazon’s genre catalog.
SEO for Author Websites: The Only Guide You Need in 2026
Discover effective author website SEO, AIO, GEO strategies to secure your name on Google and showcase your books effectively.
Zeitgeist: How Science Skepticism Is Reshaping Popular Fiction
Declining institutional trust in science is fueling a cultural shift toward supernatural fiction—magic, witches, and vampires across every genre.
Fauci’s Diary, Joe Rogan, and the Magic Boom in Fiction
AALA’s new pay-to-play agent rules, Substack’s faulty AI detector, publishing’s low AI adoption, and the supernatural fiction surge.
