Fear Not: Publishing is Alive and Well — Yes, Even for Memoir and Literary Fiction

By Peter Mountford

As 2024 draws to a close, I’ve been sifting through the stats on Publisher’s Marketplace for the year and am pleasantly surprised that SO MANY books have been accepted for publication. 

People love claiming that book publishing is dying because of AI. Or e-books and Amazon. Or because social media is replacing reading. 

But even without a juggernaut bestseller—2024 has no equivalent of 50 Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, or The Hunger Games—lots of books are being acq...