Most authors treat a book tour like a calendar dotted with dates. Book a few readings, maybe a podcast interview, […]
Author: Wilma Sanchez
Why Most Virtual Book Tours Copy Physical Tours and Fail
I’ve watched hundreds of authors stumble through virtual book tours, and the pattern is always the same. They schedule back-to-back […]
Why Percival Everett’s ‘James’ Winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Is a Landmark Moment for American Literature
The Book That Changed Everything Percival Everett’s James arrived in March 2024 like a literary asteroid. It hit number one […]
Banned Books in 2025: How the ALA’s Latest Data Reveals a Changing Battlefield in the Fight for Library Shelves
The Numbers That Should Make Us Pay Attention The American Library Association released their 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, […]
Why Everyone Is Sobbing Over Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (And Why It Hit Different Than Normal People)
The Numbers Don’t Lie, But They Also Don’t Tell the Whole Story Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo hit number one on the […]
The 2026 Women’s Prize Longlist and the Quiet Revolution in Publishing
When Six Translated Novels Change the Conversation March 2026 arrived with a surprise that wasn’t really a surprise if you’d […]
Colleen Hoover’s Publishing Empire Is Bigger Than Ever in 2026 — Here’s What the Numbers Actually Mean for Literary Fiction
The Scale of Dominance: Numbers That Reshape the Market Let’s start with what the data actually tells us. During 2024 […]
The 2025 Romance Novel Algorithm Problem: Why Kindle Unlimited Is Flooding the Market With AI-Generated Books and Ruining My TBR
The Deluge Nobody Asked For My TBR pile has become a minefield. Not because I’ve discovered too many good books—that’s […]
The Publishing Industry’s AI Reckoning: When Transparency Fails Readers and Writers
The Bombshell That Should Have Been Expected In February 2025, HarperCollins did something that felt both inevitable and shocking. The […]
The Slow Book Movement: Why Reading One Book Deeply Has Become the Wellness Trend of Early 2026
When 1.4 Billion Scrolls Lead Back to the Page Something unexpected happened on social media in January 2026. Amid the […]
Romantasy Is Eating Itself: Why Readers Are Finally Rejecting the Genre’s Endless Clones
The 600% Explosion That Nobody Asked For Something broke in romantasy around 2023. What had been a thriving, if somewhat […]
I Read All the ‘Romantasy’ Series That Took Over 2025 and Here’s My Completely Unhinged Ranking
The Genre That Broke the Dictionary Romantasy officially entered Merriam-Webster’s dictionary in 2025. Let that sink in. We’ve moved past […]