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While many people don't see sharing a book's PDF to be harmful, Maggie Stiefvater's article takes a good look at the damage digital piracy can do to an author's work.

"Then they told me that they were cutting the print run of 'The Raven King' to less than half of the print run for 'Blue Lily, Lily Blue.' No hard feelings, understand, they told me, it’s just that the sales for 'Blue Lily' didn’t justify printing any more copies. The series was in decline, they were so proud of me, it had 19 starred reviews from pro journals and was the most starred YA series ever written, but that just didn’t equal sales. They still loved me."

Contents of Maggie Stiefvater's Brain I’ve decided to tell you guys a story about piracy. I didn’t think I had much to add to the piracy commentary I made yesterday, but after seeing some of the replies to it, I decided it’s time for this story. Here are a few things we should get clear before I go on: 1) This is a U.S. centered discuss...

For the generation of kids who grew up watching Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton's new podcast is a wonderful thing!

LeVar Burton Reads: The Best Short Stories, Performed Just for You In each episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, Roots) hand-picks a different piece of short fiction, and reads it to you.

An article with some good advice for authors and other creative types!

The Importance of Taking a Break by Kira A. McFadden | Portland Book Review Writers write – this mantra is heard in every corner of the writing industry, and it’s true. The very nature – the core, if you will – of being a writer is that we write. To become successful, we must write often, typically resulting in writing becoming a full-time job. Not every writer has the luxu...