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Reading In

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February 13, 2026

In December, Blathnaid Healy and I announced the launch of Full Set, an independent non fiction publisher*. Since then we have sent eight editions of Reading In, our weekly newsletter. It’s so much fun to write these every week and we touch off many topics. This week we lead on…
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Amazon Publishing and OWN IT! Launch The New Voices Award

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August 25, 2022

Super excited to see The New Voices Award competition go live. Amazon Publishing has partnered with OWN IT! to bring this competition into being with a goal of addressing issues around inclusion and representation in commercial fiction. There is still time for folks to get their works into the competiton…
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Go Read This, Publishing

Go Read This | Thomas & Mercer signs five books from Koontz

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March 13, 2022

I am excited that my US colleagues have signed a new deal with Dean Koontz for five more books. We’ve really enjoyed bringing his work to even more readers globally, and it seems that he’s pleased too: Koontz said: “Working with the wonderful team at Thomas & Mercer has energised…
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Go Read This | Sanderson Generates $20M In Kickstarter Pledges

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March 4, 2022

Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter has cruised past $20M in pledges and it has weeks left to run. It’s gotten some attention: NYT: Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish The Bookseller: Sanderson raises more than $18.5m on Kickstarter to publish four new novels To say this is impressive…
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Go Read This, Publishing

Go Read This | The Economist on Romance Publishing

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July 21, 2021

Good to see this massive and important genre with millions of readers (and one in which Amazon Publishing publishes very successfully through our Montlake imprint) getting some media attention, even if the piece is quite short: “Romance is still too white,” says Nadine Gonzalez, a Haitian-American author now published by…
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