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17 Days Left: How to Claim Your $3,000+ From Anthropic’s $1.5B AI Copyright Settlement

This week’s highlights: Authors have only 17 days left to claim up to $3,000+ per book in the $1.5B Anthropic AI copyright settlement. YouTube’s revenue now surpasses Disney, confirming the creator economy’s dominance, a trajectory indie authors are mirroring. Amazon ended its Book Club and excluded authors from new AI ad tools.

How I Fight Off Copyright Trolls Targeting My Blogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrM68ayZhSk This article walks through several real-world encounters with copyright trolls targeting my blogs, how their schemes work, and the practical defenses I used to fight them off without paying. It also shows how DMCA...

Iranian Drones Destroy Amazon Data Centers, Amazon.com Goes Down

Week Ending March 6, 2026 In this week’s Author Update, we unpack how world events are impacting your author business, Audible’s aggressive response to Spotify, why Substack may be quietly hurting your Google rankings, and whether Apple’s new $600 laptop could be a...

Reader Magnets Are Dead? Why Most Reader Magnets Fail

Discover strategies to create a good reader magnet that will engage readers and boost your newsletter subscriptions.

Author Taxes – A 2026 Guide to Avoiding Jail & Overpaying

Taxes for authors don’t have to trigger panic. Discover rules for bookkeeping and taxes and what common mistakes to avoid.

Copyright Termination and the Feds: What Just Happened to Authors

OpenAI’s announcement of ads coming to ChatGPT for free users (and what authors should do about it), a landmark federal court ruling that copyright termination rights now apply globally (potentially returning your foreign rights), record-breaking Bible sales that mask a crisis in Christian publishing, Julia Quinn’s new romance subscription box strategy, and the surprising political battle over fonts that affects book design.

AI Threats, Platform Changes & Cultural Shifts Authors Can’t Ignore

Substack’s controversial move into sponsored ads, Audible’s new in-app video discovery features, scoring 2025 publishing predictions, the growing anti-AI movement, and major cultural zeitgeist shifts.

Productivity Secrets from Bestselling Author Jerry B. Jenkins

Productivity tips for writers that will help you finish your book and find a sustainable writing pace for your career.

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How to Create an Online Course

Learn how to transform your book into an engaging online course. Discover what types of content work best and how to maximize your course’s success.

Web Hosting for Frugal Authors

To build an author website, you first need web hosting. Discover which type of web hosting is best for your author website and which to avoid.

Are Pen Names Going Away?

There are several great reasons (and several bad ones) to use an author pen name. Find out which reasons still make sense in the age of AI authors and bots.