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StoryForge is a small start-up company that's trying to revolutionize the publishing industry. In Season 1, we talk about the struggles of small business life. In Season 2, we dive into the writing and publishing industry because it's a mess. Scandals, advice, debates, we've got it all. Also, in case you haven't picked up on it yet, we hate AI.
StoryForge hosts Publishers Behaving Badly, a business show with 27 episodes published.
Romance Con, put on by Mischief Managed, is under fire for promoting an author whose book is essentially a Harry Potter advertisement. Instead of paying attention to trans voices in particular about how they felt about t
Ava Wilde went a little viral on TikTok as a new author. The only problem is that we don't actually know who Ava Wilde is: the video of "her" was AI-generated. Is this akin to creating a pen name or is it different? Not
We had all intentions of just talking about Radish Fiction and how it was closing. But... well... you can see what happened. We went down a number of rabbit holes from all over the place. We tried. We really did.Not a me
A lot of companies in the writing and publishing world have really begun to lean into Gen AI. But... why? There are so many authors who are against it, and those who are for it are being subjected to internet cancellatio
There's a subsection of the male writer population that doesn't know how to write female characters. Not all of them but there's a pretty good list of them. There's even a subreddit dedicated to it. But why? Why are they
You're never going to please everyone, that's just not the way reality works. Someone's going to leave you a bad book review at some point. So what do you do? Cry? Ignore it? Fixate on how to compensate? Not a member of
There are so many other books out there besides what you see on social media. There are books and authors that never get a chance just because they don't fit inside the perfect box that the publishing industry is looking
Authors and illustrators are constantly having to apologize for being caught using Gen AI. It's harmed careers and companies, but people continue to trust AI and use it when they shouldn't or don't need to. So... why? Wh
The government is out to take our libraries away. They want to defund our libraries for whatever nonsense they can come up with. We say no to that. We say that our libraries are more important than that. Libraries provid
Because Gen AI and the people using it just can't seem to leave the writing community alone, they're now targeting sapphic authors and sapphic books. Check out this wonderful article about the issue and make sure to foll
LibGen or Library of Genesis is an illegal streaming site that's been around for some time. Why are we talking about them now? Well, because it would've taken too much time and money to legally obtain resources, Meta has
Human Voices Only was a movement started by voice actors in response to Amazon's push for Gen AI-narrated audiobooks. Human voice actors took to social media to share clips of themselves narrating books and it was fantas
Reedsy, the writing platform, sent out an email encouraging people to use Gen AI for things like data analysis and ad image generation. The problem? They have the Reedsy Marketplace, where the entire purpose is to find p
Some authors use editors to help with scenes. Some use ghostwriters. And at least one, KC Crowne, used ChatGPT or some other AI. How do we know? Because the response to the prompt was LEFT IN THE BOOK. The use of AI in w
On March 31, 2025, the National Novel Writing Month organization, or NaNoWriMo, announced they would be shutting down. There are lots of questions around the timing and messaging of it. Let alone that the announcements d
Beta reading is a lot different than just reading. A beta reader is reading with a purpose. A beta reader is reading to give feedback to the author on their ideas and themes, to ensure that an author's ideas and themes a
Generative AI has become an invasive species in the world of art and publishing. What is it bad, who is it hurting, and what can we do about it? StoryForge stands opposed to Gen AI so we have some very strong feelings ab
The StoryForge team is joined by Kathy from Bublish Publishing. Bublish is on a mission to empower self-published authors with the tools, resources, and programs they need to be successful in today’s competitive book mar
Author of the book Etched In Stone, Sarah Al-Serhaid joins the podcast to talk about the journey of traditional publishing vs independent publishing as well as how she keeps a balance in her life. She's also a scientist
Joining the StoryForge team is Glen Weatherhead, founder of Creative Writing Wizard. The Creative Writing Wizard aims to highlight indie authors, provide author resources, and build a community of supportive creatives. W
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