by Maureen Crisp • November 9, 2015 • Follow
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This week Jenny Trout writes a rebuttal against Washington Post’s article on plagiarism in romance.
In other news, Amazon has opened a bookstore in Seattle. The online company that has been knocking all the brick and mortars out of business is now going into the physical business itself. Authors wait in curiosity to see what how this will affect their self-publishing sector. This week we will also be talking about the gender bias that is still going on in particular publishing genres, and how authors and readers are handling it:
Genre Bashing
Why did @JustinTrudeau choose a gender balanced cabinet?”Because it’s 2015.”https://t.co/oZhL8422pU
— George Darroch (@georgedarroch) November 4, 2015
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Maureen Crisp has been writing her weekly publishing roundups for over seven years. She is a traditionally published children's author as well as indie-published. She lives in New Zealand and is heading the team organising the 4th National Conference of Children's Writers and Illustrators. She is currently trying her hand at writing a children’s book series if she can drag herself away from forever tweaking her Mars novel or obsessing over space.