Publishing Demystification

Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish

The editors and co-publishers on literary resurrections, running a hybrid press, and being “nimble and imaginative” as a small publisher.

Mar 25 • Lincoln Michel

What It Means that Hachette Just Canceled an AI Novel

Quick Thoughts on the Canceled (Seemingly) LLM-Authored Novel

Mar 20 • Lincoln Michel

MFA vs. Publishing Round 2,000

Some quick thoughts on the unending MFA discourse, LLM books flooding publishing, and other things.

Mar 18 • Lincoln Michel

Thoughts on Publishing a Novel in 2025

Plus, the Counter Craft Year-End Round-Up

Dec 23, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell

The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores

Nov 6, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

To Understand What Books Are Published, You Must Understand How Books Are Sold

Plus cyborg baseball and the Anthropic AI author settlement info

Oct 2, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

The Book Club Industrial Complex, Speculative Detectives, Remembering Maxine Clair, and Other Sunday Sundries

A Sunday roundup of writing-related things from the past week.

Sep 28, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

Scattered Thoughts on the State of Book Reviews

rainy day thoughts on a rainy day

Sep 10, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

Brooks, Books, and the Imagined Realties of Publishing

One last post on "decline of literature" discourse...

Jul 16, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

The Forever Dying and the Always Dead; or, Literary Fiction and the Novel

A long post on the state of "literary fiction," book sales, and the culture at large

Jun 24, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

Interview: Editor Sean deLone on How Modern Publishing Actually Works

A conversation about the evolving role of editors, how books get "into shape," and the good and bad of publishing today

Jun 19, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

The Writer as Chimera (and Where Substack Fits In)

Or MFA vs. NYC vs. Streaming TV vs. Substack Feed vs...

Jun 3, 2025 • Lincoln Michel

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