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Ines Oliveira

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Ines Oliveira covers Governance, Art News and Publishing News.

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Believe Signs Olive Jones: What an Exclusive Songwriting Deal Buys at 2.8 Million Listeners

Publishing News

Believe Signs Olive Jones: What an Exclusive Songwriting Deal Buys at 2.8 Million Listeners

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Book Deals: Advances, Royalties, Rights Clauses

Publishing News

Book Deals: Advances, Royalties, Rights Clauses

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Inside the Independent Bookstore Supply Chain

Publishing News

How Bookstores Get Books: Inside the Independent Bookstore Supply Chain

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Plot Basics: Stakes, Turns, Escalation

Plot Development — Plot Basics: Stakes, Turns, Escalation

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How a Book Gets Published, Start to Finish

Publishing News

How to Get a Book Published: How a Book Gets Published, Start to Finish

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Writing a Check, Step by Step, in the Digital Age

Writing a Check, Step by Step, in the Digital Age

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Drake Giving Up 'Solar Eclipse' Publishing: Big Gesture, One Source

Drake Giving Up 'Solar Eclipse' Publishing: Big Gesture, One Source

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How Auction Houses Set the Price of Art

How Art Auction Prices Work: How Auction Houses Set the Price of Art

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Why Pencil Still Beats Screen for Early Drafts

Pencil vs Typing Drafts: Why Pencil Still Beats Screen for Early Drafts

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How to Start Writing a Book Without Losing Steam

How to Start Writing a Book Without Losing Steam

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Cooking Vinyl Publishing Signs Jaz Coleman, and the Numbers Behind the Career — AI-generated illustration

Publishing News

Cooking Vinyl Publishing Signs Jaz Coleman, and the Numbers Behind the Career

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Publishing News

What a Literary Agent Actually Does for Their 15 Percent

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How Many Drafts Is Enough

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Publishing News

The Report on Book Banning's Effect on Publishing — and What Writers Should Know

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How a Book Advance Actually Gets Paid Out

How a Book Advance Actually Gets Paid Out

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How the National Book Awards Longlists Actually Get Made

Publishing News

How the National Book Awards Longlists Actually Get Made

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Why Literary Agents Never Charge to Read Your Manuscript

Publishing News

Why Literary Agents Never Charge to Read Your Manuscript

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What an Author Platform Actually Is

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Backstory Without Stalling the Scene

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The Huntington Turns Its Library to the Moon

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Author and translator celebrating at a literary prize ceremony

Publishing News

Taiwan Travelogue Won the International Booker

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How to Revise a Novel in Passes

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Publishing News

Audiobooks Keep Growing While Ebooks Slide

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Writing Retreats: What They Cost

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How Translation Deals Reach Authors

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Infographic of the 2026 Pulitzer letters winners by category

Publishing News

Pulitzer 2026: Angel Down Takes Fiction

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Building a Daily Writing Habit

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First Person vs Close Third: A Scene Drafted Both Ways

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The Art Market Returned to Growth in 2025

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Drafting Software Compared

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The Math of Writing Full-Time

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How the NEA Funds Literature

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Reading Like a Writer: The Actual Practice

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What Debut Book Publicity Actually Involves

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Infographic timeline of the Anthropic copyright settlement

Publishing News

The Anthropic Settlement, for Writers

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How Authors Earn Beyond the Advance

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Publishing News

How Publishers Decide Print Runs

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Word Targets vs Time Targets

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A literary agent reading a printed manuscript at a cluttered desk

Why Opening Pages Get Rejected

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