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Author Notes #24 (October 2025)
Publishing anxieties, analysing Aussie readers, not letting AI steal creative joy, the publishing industry's gambling problem, innovative…
Oct 29
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Author Notes Extra (rounding up September 2025)
Thoughts on safe spaces, famous authors on book bans, StoryBox Hub, DYK Jane Austen wanted to be famous, and are you a donkey (like me!) or a unicorn?!
Sep 30
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Author Notes #23 (September 2025)
The Anthropic settlement, librarians fed up with AI-hallucinated books, an Australian children's author angers the Trump administration, Meanjin to…
Sep 24
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes Extra (rounding up August 2025)
A cautionary publishing tale, Animal Farm at 80, a big win against book bans, Helen Garner's new famous fan, and more publishing success stories! Plus…
Sep 2
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #22 (August 2025)
Declining reading rates, admiring Rebecca F. Kuang, AI pushback and threats to copyright, censoring crisis at an Aussie festival, and HopePunk, an…
Aug 27
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes Extra: a round-up of July 2025
Publishing gets scandalous, random tax rules on prizes, latest AI pushback, declining numbers of male readers and a new 'laureate's week' for young…
Aug 6
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #21 (July 2025)
Trade reports from the US, inspirational self-published authors, anti-racism tools, all about romantasy, and Jodi Picoult questions if literature is…
Jul 30
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #20 (June 2025)
Censorship, YTD bestseller trends, silencing older women's stories, authors giving back, UK trade insights, dark romance is trending, and AI Agatha…
Jun 25
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #19 (May 2025) - and it's my 100th Substack post!
Featuring time covers, writing prizes, AI updates, sensitivity reads, cookbook scandals, new writing resources, and lots more!
May 29
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #18 (April 2025)
Reading initiatives, author auctions for Palestine, Global Book Crawls, questionable emails, NaNoWriMo collapses, and more!
May 2
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #17 (March 2025)
Meta's thievery; French rebels taking on Hachette; shaking up our older characters; Jojo Moyes talks to Lisa Jewell; and White Lotus Easter Eggs.
Apr 3
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Sara Foster
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Author Notes #16 (Feb 2025)
Indie publishers are disappearing; a new report on Australian readers; beyond the author doom and gloom; navigating the AI freakout; and writing advice…
Feb 27
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Sara Foster
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