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    • Audiobook Sales Up 9 Percent In 2025, To $2.4B

      General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children’s, including YA. – Publishers Weekly

    • Do We Really Care If Memoirs Are Truthful?

      “The facts may not totally line up, but the emotions are all present and accounted for.” – Washington Post (MSN)

    • Sure, Write What You Know, But Write What Scares You

      “When you sense a story, or glimpse a scene, or feel a character coming to life, you stop, step back, consider what in that might scare you most. … Let that dread jolt you loose. Then—and this is key for me—find a way to make it worse.” – LitHub

    • A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War

      “The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times

    • Mary Shelley’s Sisters

      “Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended family. … She counted Aaron Burr (former USA vice president), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), Humphry Davy (scientist), [and] Charles and Mary Lamb (writers)” as acquaintances. – LitHub

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