“Nobody really reads anymore, so what’s the point in writing a book?” is an expensive myth. More people are reading right now than they have in years. BookTok has turned millions of young people into obsessive readers and become one of the biggest trends on the whole platform. People have been predicting the death of the book for decades and they’ve been wrong every time - Kindle was supposed to finish it off, then audiobooks, and neither has come close. Readers are out there, more of them than ever, and the only thing keeping you from them is a book you haven’t written yet. My co-founder Lucy McCarraher MBE has mentored 1,000+ entrepreneurs through writing their business books, and on Thursday 5th November she’s running a free live masterclass on how to publish a book that wins higher-paying clients and gets you onto stages and podcasts. Everyone who registers also gets her full book as a free download. Save your seat:

Jewish authors, agents, and other book professionals describe an ecosystem from big publishers to #BookTok# that is suppressing Jewish and Israeli voices. A handful of publishing startups focused on Jewish and Israeli writers are emerging in response.