Happy Holidays

On this episode of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, Dan Holloway explains how the Meta ruling favors tech companies but leaves the door open for future cases that could benefit authors. He also covers Cloudflare’s new tool to let publishers charge AI firms for content scraping and reports on a bestselling author’s move to take control of her rights outside traditional publishing.

Thanks, as they so often do, go to Mark Williams for alerting me to a story I had missed about Sarah J. Maas. Unusually so, because I have spent a considerable part of this year writing about romantasy, a genre that Maas has arguably done more than any other author to propel to the status of reading phenomenon it currently holds.

What does it really take to build a lasting author platform in 2025? In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, host Dale L. Roberts chats with indie author Kerrie Flanagan about what it means to grow and sustain an author brand in today’s crowded publishing world. From mastering the tools that matter to balancing multiple genres under different pen names, this conversation offers practical insights for authors looking to deepen their reader connections and expand their reach.