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Author Update: The Beautiful People Is Here

Indie Author Spotlight: How AI Is Closing the Gap Between No-Name Authors and Big-Budget Bestsellers

Freida McFadden, I Have Questions. šŸ˜‚šŸ“š

Oath of Ashes Is Here — But This Isn’t Your Typical Love Story

SelfPubCon26: What’s on the Agenda at This Year’s Free Online Indie Author Conference

Something Dark Is Brewing... šŸ–¤

She Knows How to Disappear. He Knows How to Find Her. šŸ”„

His Collateral Is Live on Wattpad

Chapter One Is Live: Unholy Obsession

Meet My New Dark Romance: Unholy Obsession

Apparently, Writing Dark Romance Wasn't Enough

The Direct Sales Shift: Why Indie Authors Are Building Their Own Stores

They Used Real Publisher Names. The Deals Were Fake.

The Scam Books Showing Up Days After Yours Does

Indie Author News: The Hybrid Author Is Becoming the Norm

Indie Author News: Lulu's Direct Buy Button Lowers the Barrier to Selling Direct

Indie Author News: Exclusive to Amazon, or Wide? Here's What Each Actually Buys You

Indie Author News: Maybe It's Not One or the Other

There’s an App That Fakes a $30 Million Bank Balance. It’s Being Used on Dating Apps.

The Buyer Who Was Never Coming: Inside a $45 Million Fake Acquisition

The Fraud Wasn’t Hackers. It Was Two Employees and a Forklift.

He Turned Fraud Into a Subscription Product. It Still Didn’t Work.

While Everyone Chased the Biggest AI Rounds, Biotech Quietly Kept Its Footing

The Fake Customers Were the Tell. Nobody Was Checking.

The One-Person Company Isn't a Fallback Anymore. It's a Strategy.

$80 Million, 500 Victims, One Word Investigators Kept Repeating: Trust

AI Just Took Over Part of the Job That Used to Take a Team of Engineers

Your AI Can Explain What It Did. Can It Prove How It Decided?

Rust Just Drew a Line Around AI Contributions — And Its Own Leadership Isn’t Sure It’s the Right One

The Fraud Fight Is Turning a Corner — And AI Is Why

The Biggest Labor Shortage in American History Is Already Here. AI Is How Small Businesses Survive It.

The AI Tools Are Coming for Your To-Do List, Not Your Job

The $725 Billion Bet

Your Customers Are About to Send AI Agents to Shop for Them. Here’s How to Be Ready.

Book Spotlight: The Novel Narrated by Death Itself Is July's #1 Indie Pick

The Agent Accountability Gap: What Happens When Your AI Makes the Mistake?

OpenAI just shipped a coworker, not another chatbot.

AI Is Already Inside Your Small Business. Is It Protecting You, or Setting You Up?

The Best Defense Against AI Fraud Is Better AI

Dark Romance Just Found Its Monster: Why Romance-Horror Is the Genre's Next Wave (and Where Beautiful Chaos Fits)

The Friday Five: Top Indie Author News This Week

The Gatekeepers Are Scared. Good.

The Model They Couldn't Keep Quiet — And Couldn't Keep Running

The Books Everyone Is Talking About Right Now — and Why They Both Deserve the Hype

The Numbers Don't Lie: Dark Romance Is Taking Over in 2026

Top 5 Literary News Stories — Week of June 5, 2026

The Government That Learned to Act on Its Own

I Tried the ā€œMake Money With AIā€ Thing So You Don’t Have To

Today in AI: Google Goes Agentic

I Gave Myself $100 and One Day to Build a Passive Income Stream Using AI

You don't have an AI problem. You have a strategic problem.

The Businesses Winning With AI Aren’t Using It the Way You Think

Fraudsters Are Now Using AI Too — And Your Business Is the Target

5 Simple Ways to Protect Your Business From Fraud Today

Fraud Isn’t Increasing—It’s Evolving

The 2-Step Rule That Stops Most Payment Fraud

The Email That Can Drain Your Business Account

The $700 Million Scam That Looked Like an Investment App

The Hidden Risk in Aging Accounts Receivable: How Internal Fraud Blends into Normalcy

The $14 Million Lie: How Aging AR Hid Fraud in Plain Sight

The Red Flags Everyone Missed: The Bernie Madoff Fraud

The Fall of a Mortgage Giant: How Washington Mutual’s Risk Culture Fueled Its Collapse

Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend

Morally Gray Men, Reader Meltdowns & Publishing Moves — This Week in Romance

Eight is Great: The Wells Fargo Sales Machine

Why Most Writers Never Finish Their First Draft

Love, Lies, and the Digital Age: Why Love Cons Had to Be Written

The Story I Couldn’t Let Go: First NBC Fraud

Mistakes Writers Make With Morally Gray Women

Deep Dive: How to Write a Morally Gray FMC