As we have entered the Fall 2025 term, I have had to readdress what the Quick Start Guide project is and its relevance to the publishing industry we hope to soon enter. Most importantly, there has been a major alteration to the scope of the project.
Especially in a visual culture and literacy crisis, images are more immediately and widely accessible than prose. That makes them not only dangerous to those who want to control information, but also vulnerable to moral panics and cherry picking. Since comics are the art of juxtaposing images, it’s not particularly difficult to manufacture a case of obscenity by removing a panel from the context that gives it meaning and showing it at a board meeting or other assembly.
In an oversaturated market, finding a way to identify a target audience and attract their attention is an incredibly invaluable asset to staying in the business. However, a big challenge to BISAC codes’ accuracy is the lack of diverse life experience among the small body of people who make the BISAC classifications.
Of the hundreds of thousands of books published in the US in 2024, only forty-eight of them were works in translation. Regardless of genre, only 3 percent of books published […]
Webtoons have become a global phenomenon that has transformed the landscape of digital storytelling. This form of media started in South Korea and gained global popularity, but what exactly makes […]
If you want to get into audiobook narration, here are a couple of weird but helpful exercises that I’ve picked up over the years that will keep you and your voice in tip-top shape.
In recent years, a trend has emerged: YA horror books are pulling visual inspiration directly from horror film posters. The result? Covers that feel instantly familiar to fans of the genre, but also fresh and layered when seen through a literary lens.
Until publishers adapt to the usage of queer BISAC codes, we will never be able to measure the true extent of queer literature’s popularity, which is not only detrimental to accurate sales analysis, but also to the queer community itself. Queer literature has long existed in the margins—published only by independent presses, relegated to “special interest” bookstores, and so on. But with the genre’s significant and longstanding popularity, as well as its movement into the general public’s eye, there is no reason for it to remain on the sidelines.
Here is an overview of library resources and programs which might be relevant to you, a person concerned with books, that you may not already be aware of.
In June 2023, the European Union introduced the EU Deforestation Regulation, a sweeping replacement for the EU Timber Regulation that had been in place for the previous decade. While the […]