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"It has been another very successful year for #Melbourne #Jewish #Book Week (#MJBW).
About 2,000 people attended the many outstanding MJBW events held at the Pullman Hotel in #AlbertPark this weekend.
MJBW launched with a gala opening event at #GlenEira Town Hall on Saturday night. The evening featured music, humour and stories from an international cast of #authors, including #RachelCockerell, #YishayIshiRon, #AyeletTsabari, #AliBerg, #DannyBenMoshe, #KatiaAriel, #AlanFyfe and #BillyAlbert.
#DebbieLee, MJBW Festival Director, said in her opening speech, “It might sound clichéd, but through adversity we find strength, and Melbourne Jewish Book Week is a prime example of that."
https://www.jwire.com.au/melbourne-jewish-book-week-draws-crowds/
"Following the #Hamas-led #Oct7 attacks on #Israel, #Jewish #authors have described an increasingly hostile environment in traditional #publishing. In fact, the number of #books marketed as Jewish have declined over the past three years — pointing to either fewer Jewish books, or fewer #publishers willing to market them as Jewish.
Even so, the demand for Jewish #romance #novels from Jewish readers has flourished, aided by The Matzah Ball’s #author #JeanMeltzer and a #bookclub she started called Jewish Joy.
“I think a reason why the community grew is because of what the romance genre itself offers the reader, which is basically happiness,” says #HeidiShertok, the author of two #Orthodox Jewish #romances and a leader of Jewish Joy. “We’re going to give you that happily ever after, no matter the struggles and the obstacles and the difficulties that the character is facing. And I think we need that so much right now, especially as #Jews.”
https://forward.com/news/842360/these-jewish-readers-wanted-happy-endings-so-they-turned-to-romance/
More on Meg Keane's upcoming publishing imprint.
"Over the next year, #MegKeene #Books will release four to six #novels that she and the founders of #WickedSon believe will elevate #Jewish voices and reconstruct a bygone communal Jewish #literary conversation. She will also edit a forthcoming #literarymagazine designed to shape the Jewish #book-buying audience.
"My goal is to make Jewish #publishing feel really cool,” #Keene told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“I’m planning to acquire books across genres — male #authors, female authors, #romance, #thriller, literary #fiction — you know, the works,” she added. “I also intend to put everything I have behind each book, and sort of ask the Jewish community to support these books and make the case for them.”
It would be exciting to stop begging for inclusion and just suck it up and move on.
"#Jewish #writers say they are dismayed to learn that one of the nation’s largest free outdoor #literary festivals is scheduled to take place during the two days of #RoshHashanah, September 12 and 13.
#PrintersRowLitFest, an outdoor #bookfestival that draws thousands of #authors and $book lovers to the streets of #Chicago’s South Loop, announced the festival’s dates in April. But only recently, amid rising concerns about #antisemitism in the #publishing world, did some Jewish authors realize the schedule conflict. This year’s Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Friday, Sept. 11 and ends at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 13.
#BrianBerg, a spokesman for #PrintersRow, said that scheduling difficulties caused the overlap with Rosh Hashanah."
"[T]he message sent to the industry was clear: If you work with #Jewish #authors, it will cost you.
Aware that even the staggering evidence I was amassing remained anecdotal, I wanted to find a way to track the impact of what was happening more empirically.
I turned to #PublishersMarketplace, the leading industry database where many #book deals are announced, and reviewed #fiction deals for #books by #Jewishauthors that publicly signaled Jewish or #Israeli content. What I found was grim. Between 2023 and 2024, there was a 76% decline in fiction deal announcements to large presses that mentioned #Jews, #Judaism or #Israel. The numbers improved somewhat in 2025, but they did not recover. Compared with 2023, announced sales of #Jewishbooks were still down 47% at large presses.
And the early 2026 numbers are worse..."
"#PENAmerica’s president has resigned after the #freespeech group released a report detailing how #Israeli and #Jewish #writers have faced “rising isolation and exclusion” in the aftermath of 2023’s #Oct7 attacks in #Israel and the subsequent war in #Gaza.
The #Ethiopian #novelist #DinawMengestu had held the organization’s leadership position since December 2025. He told The #NewYorkTimes that Pen America’s report, which examines the impacts of cultural boycotts, unfairly maligns the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, an attempt to economically isolate Israel.
The July 9 report, titled “A Silent Moratorium,” was the work of three #authors. They include PEN America’s editorial director #LisaTolin, a veteran of #NBCNews and the #AssociatedPress, as well as its chief communications officer #GeraldineBaum, a longtime former staff #writer for #TheLosAngelesTimes who earned a #Pulitzer Prize for Public Service early in her career at #Newsday."
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"Someone once sent me a model of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared into the ocean. But the best gift? What a terrifying question. My college education? If anyone ever gives me a human skull, that will be it." Elisa Gabbert answers the Longreads questionnaire https://longreads.com/2026/07/08/longreads-questionnaire-elisa-gabbert/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #authors #writing #interview #creativity #longreads
"#Authors are eager. #Literary professionals want to help. Potential funders are paying attention. #Readers have already shown that the audience exists. What has been missing is structure.
We need to build something of our own. It should include a #publishing platform, yes, but also #editors, agents, marketers, reviewers, #booksellers, events, newsletters, donors, and readers working in concert. It should help #Jewish authors develop excellent #books, place them before the right audiences, and prove what should never have needed proving: Jewish #stories matter, and Jewish books can sell.
This wouldn’t be the first time that #Jews built institutions because existing institutions would not make room for us."
Q: What animal or nonhuman being do you most identify with?
A: An ecosystem.
Spend some time with #CoryDoctorow in our latest Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/06/17/questionnaire-cory-doctorow/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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@nixCraft Like the article states: "but it isn’t an isolated case."
It's a great research of only one example. Unfortunately, publishing houses/their authors loose thousands of dollars by fake-sites and fake books. Such companies even sell fake biographies when a well-known author launches a book. Meanwhile, they fake even voices, videos. Smaller publishing houses often give up ...
What we need are big publishers
#writers #authors #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #AISlop #deepfakes
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A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.
https://soc.octade.net/papers/
#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse
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