200 Novels in a Year. Is That Writing — or Something Else?
The indie author world has been arguing about this since February, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. A New York Times profile introduced the world to “Coral Hart” — a pen name for a Cape Town-based romance author who used AI to produce more than 200 novels in 2025 across 21 pen names,…
The Bookstore Isn’t Dying. It’s Being Reborn — and Dark Romance Is Leading the Way.
Someone keeps telling you bookstores are disappearing. They’re wrong. Here’s what’s actually happening. The myth is so persistent it made it into The Devil Wears Prada 2 — a character lamenting that bookstores are “getting downsized and consolidated.” It’s a good line. It’s also fiction in more ways than one. The American Booksellers Association just…
$70.3 Million Was Up for Grabs on Kindle Unlimited Last Month. Are You Getting Your Share?
Amazon just quietly published a number that every indie author on KDP Select should be talking about. The KDP Select Global Fund for May 2026 hit $70.3 million. That’s the pool of money Amazon set aside — just for one month — to pay authors enrolled in Kindle Unlimited based on how many pages their…