Happy 2025! As we ring in the new year, it’s a great time to look back on the many successes our talented authors achieved in 2024. We are excited to work closely with many of you this year, and to celebrate more coming accomplishments!
Becoming a published author for the first time is an incredible experience, but it can also be overwhelming and confusing. From learning about your book’s lengthy publishing timeline to setting yourself up for success in the months leading up to your launch, debuting can raise a lot of questions about just how everything works.
The last time we checked in on Meta’s newest platform, Threads, it was early in its development. Now that it’s past its first birthday and has more than 200 million active users, we’re going over some of the new (and upcoming) features built to help creators get the best experience out of the app.
As part of our recent Author University program “Everything You Need to Know about School and Library Marketing,” Alan Walker, VP of Higher Education Marketing for Penguin Random House, joined us to shed some light on this busy behind-the-scenes team.
Across three sessions this year, Author University hosted hundreds of guests to discuss insights on various parts of the author life. We’ll be back with more live sessions in the new year—but if you’re unfamiliar with Author U seminars or missed any of the live sessions this year, we’re looking back at our 2024 panels with some key tips and takeaways to get you started!
If you are an author interested in connecting with potential readers and other authors on social media, there is a host of platforms you may consider. Instagram and TikTok are great places to start because of their large reader communities, but have you considered LinkedIn? Often remembered only as the platform for job connections, LinkedIn can be a great place to promote your author career as well, no matter what genre you write.
In October, Penguin Random House joined forces with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and more than 10,000 global creators and cultural institutions in signing a statement condemning the unauthorized use of creative and intellectual works by big tech companies for their generative AI models.