For a list of upcoming events and workshops, check here.
Be sure to check my YouTube channel
Podcasts
- London Writers’ Salon podcast (Episode 147, June 2025): What writers should know about pitching, platforms & more
- The Grammar Girl podcast (Episode 1086, May 2025): The publishing world is changing. Jane Friedman tells us how
- Write the Damn Book Already podcast (Episode 125, May 2025)
- The Book Marketing Action Podcast (Episode 151, May 2025)
- The Extraordinary Business Book Club (Episode 453, May 2025)
- Otherppl with Brad Listi, podcast and video (April 2025)
- Let Me Introduce You, conversation with Marion Roach Smith (April 2025)
- Book Riot’s First Edition podcast: The Business of Being a Writer (April 2025)
- #AmWriting: The Business of Being a Writer (April 2025)
- Writing Your Resilience: How to Navigate the Business of Writing & Publishing (April 2025)
- Some Things Considered: The Truth About AI and the Future of Writing (March 2025)
- Self-Publishing Insiders: Industry Trends with Jane Friedman (February 2025)
Other coverage
- The Thriving Creative: Jane Friedman shares the business of being a writer (June 2025)
- Career Authors: Do You Have What It Takes to Make It in Publishing? (excerpt)
- Saturday Evening Post News of the Week by Bob Sassone (April 25, 2025)
Events
- Good Contrivance Farm, writer in residence (May 2025)
- MCPL Publishing Week, Kansas City, April 26, 2025
- Scrivener Outreach: What I Wish Writers Knew About the Business of Writing, April 23, 2025
- An evening with Jane Friedman, Mercantile Library, April 8, 2025
- A recap of my AWP 2025 panel, “The Bottom Line,” by publicist Jeffrey Yamaguchi
- How to earn money in a creator economy, Woman’s Press Club of Indiana, March 22, 2025
Coverage for the first edition
- Writerly: The Business of Writing (April 2019)
- The Business Book Podcast, Season 2 / Episode 9
- Marginally podcast, Episode 44
- American Society of Journalists and Authors podcast
- Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Episode 102
- DIY MFA podcast (Episode 194)
- The Creative Penn podcast (April 9, 2018)
- StoryADay podcast (Episode 099)
- Dabblers vs. Doers podcast with Dan Blank (March 14, 2018)
- StoryMen podcast (Season 9 / March 5, 2018)
- The Unpublishables
- Jane Friedman on Giving Writers the Education They Never Get | The Book Doctors
- Interview | The Fictional Cafe
- Book Biz Interview | Stephanie Bucklin
- Latinidad – Summer 2018: The Business of Being a Writer
- The Business of Being a Writer: Interview with Jane Friedman | How to Write a Book
- Branding, Marketing: Today’s Writers Must Do More Than Just Put Words on a Page | The Press-Enterprise
- LitChat guest (April 2, 2018)
- Making a Living as a Writer | Creators Vancouver
- Not an Art or a Science | Jungle Red Writers | Q&A in the comments
- Chicago Manual of Style Shop Talk blog: “Jane Friedman Talks About the Business of Being a Writer”
- Brand Building | Sage Cohen
- Turning Attention Into Sales | Goodreads
- A Smarter Author Platform for the Digital Era of Publishing | Writer Unboxed
- Snippet at Elizabeth Sims
- Small Presses: 7 Questions to Ask While Researching Them | Elizabeth Spann Craig
- Publishers Weekly reviewed the book, saying “[Friedman’s] volume is destined to become a staple reference book for writers and those interested in publishing careers.”
- Library Journal – starred review
- Reading Room review | StoryADay.org | Julie Duffy
- Christina Katz
- Jay Swanson, an early reader of the book, offers his take in this YouTube video.
- Funding Your Writing – a 30-minute discussion of grants, patronage, and crowdfunding