by Tina | Mar 24, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
PEN America Literary Awards Face Renewed Backlash Amid Author Withdrawals For the second year in a row, the PEN America Literary Awards are under scrutiny as authors continue to distance themselves from the organization in protest over its stance on the Israel-Hamas...
by Tina | Mar 24, 2025 | TRS Blog, Workshops
Learn hot to get your book in front of agents How to Query Workshop by Autocrit Sessions on 3/24 and 3/31 Put together a package that pops. Prepare for the next step in your publishing journey with this interactive two-session workshop from Autocrit, led by USA Today...
by Tina | Mar 21, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Stolen Stories, Rising Voices: What Authors Must Know About Meta’s AI Book Scraping Scandal In a startling revelation shaking the literary world, Meta and other major AI companies are now under fire for scraping over 7.5 million pirated books—allegedly used to train...
by Tina | Mar 20, 2025 | TRS Blog, Workshops
Foreshadowing Workshop by Autocrit When we say the word “foreshadowing,” what do you think of? A seemingly innocuous line of dialogue that feels a little too important? An image of an unknown person trudging their way across a field? Some overly...
by Tina | Mar 20, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Banned but Not Silenced: Careless People Becomes a Bestseller Despite Meta’s Legal Block Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Macmillan) has defied all odds, soaring onto bestseller charts despite its author being legally barred from promoting it. The memoir, which...
by Tina | Mar 19, 2025 | Latest News, TRS Blog
Unmasking Mystery Plotcraft Workshop by Autocrit It started with such promise – a bloody murder scene, a detective with just the right amount of baggage, and a lineup of suspects each hiding their own little skeletons. You were excited. This was the one. But then it...
